Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, December 26, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, December 26, 2025 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.7 letters. The longest answer is "EGGANDSPOONRACE".
Total Clues
70
Longest
EGGANDSPOONRACE
Avg Length
5.7
Shortest
MOA
Featured Clue
"Competition that combines speed with balance"
15 Letters
EGGANDSPOONRACE
ALLComplete Solution List
Dawdler
8SLOWPOKE
Kitsch
6LOWART
Some babysitters
5NANAS
Flip
6LOSEIT
Individually
6APIECE
Linked with
6TIEDIN
Tuesday, in French
5MARDI
Cuts short
6ABORTS
Contest
4BOUT
Plant that's toxic to cats
4LILY
Editorialize
5OPINE
___ Tuesday (end of the pre-Lenten season)
6SHROVE
Life partner, perhaps?
8CELLMATE
Food that can be prepared de canasta
5TACOS
One whose beauty is on the inside
5GEODE
Doing some theater work
8USHERING
Overly self-assertive
5BRASH
Down Under bird that scientists are working to "de-extinct"
3MOA
Certain care provider, for short
3EMT
Typical sight in a bank robbery cartoon
8MONEYBAG
Singular, with or without its first letter
4LONE
It might be marked with an X
5PORNO
Harden and become resistant to change
6OSSIFY
Like untended plots
5WEEDY
Cracked wheat used in tabbouleh
6BULGUR
Old coin with a picture of Generalissimo Franco
6PESETA
The world's end, in Norse mythology
8RAGNAROK
Broad band?
3OBI
Half of a classic rum cocktail's name
3MAI
Whole kit and caboodle
5GAMUT
Baby sitter?
8STROLLER
Funeral ___
4PYRE
Since Jan. 1, on a pay stub
3YTD
Drive
8AMBITION
Mr. or Ms. Right
8TRUELOVE
Song commonly performed outdoors
5CAROL
Royal Australian Air Force insignia
8KANGAROO
How a supervillain might brag
6SMUGLY
Waiting for support, maybe
6ONHOLD
___-Latin (like some modern coinages)
3NEO
Competition that combines speed with balance
15EGGANDSPOONRACE
Treated with respect.
8ESTEEMED
Professor Dumbledore
5ALBUS
Bevy : quail :: parliament : ___
3OWL
A cold one is unexpected (and usually unappreciated)
4CALL
Like a good sponge cake
5MOIST
Facility
4GIFT
Re-fresh?
5RETRO
One toeing the line?
15TIGHTROPEWALKER
Origin story family in DC Comics
5KENTS
Nearby things
5THESE
Connected
3MET
Sister of Moses
6MIRIAM
Mantra
5CHANT
Made up
6ATONED
Component of a nautilus shell
5NACRE
Short diner order
3BLT
Stack up
4PILE
Worth considering
6OFNOTE
Big break
4RIFT
Stick by a fireplace
5MATCH
Nation dubbed the "cradle of mankind"
5KENYA
Casting need?
3DIE
"You can absolutely count on me"
8IPROMISE
Eric who wrote and illustrated "Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me"
5CARLE
Figure in sci-fi's "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman," e.g.
8GIANTESS
Like the pope's guards
5SWISS
Great illustrations
8EPITOMES
Area on which to eat or play cards
8TABLETOP
Understood
5GOTME