Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, December 28, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, December 28, 2025 features 140 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.3 letters. The longest answer is "ROSETTASTONE".
Total Clues
140
Longest
ROSETTASTONE
Avg Length
5.3
Shortest
TIG
Featured Clue
"<i>Rock of Ages</i>"
12 Letters
ROSETTASTONE
ALLComplete Solution List
Comedian Notaro
3TIG
New Mexico skiing locale
4TAOS
Baldwin of "30 Rock"
4ALEC
Chips go-with
5SALSA
Host Tyler of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
5AISHA
Full legislative assembly
6PLENUM
Starting section
5PARTA
Sign in a theater
4EXIT
I can handle that for you ...
5LETME
Subject of some modern maps
6GENOME
Boots out
6EJECTS
Buds
4PALS
Straight up
5ERECT
Droll
3WRY
__ down the hatches!
6BATTEN
Swallow something hook, line, and sinker
7EATITUP
Cribbage markers
4PEGS
Far from fore
3AFT
Bit of power
4WATT
Nursery rhyme couple
6SPRATS
Cell letters
3RNA
Fab Four drummer
5STARR
Sine's reciprocal, in trig
5COSEC
Personal histories
5PASTS
<i>A Strange Loop</i>
11MOBIUSSTRIP
S.L.R. insert since the early 2000s
6SDCARD
Personification of darkness, in Greek myth
6EREBUS
College credit hours
5UNITS
Baths in Bath
4LAVS
<i>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying</i>
8NEPOTISM
Prop for a proposal
4KNEE
<i>A Chorus Line</i>
7REFRAIN
Automatons, informally
4BOTS
Wave to, say
5GREET
Ran in the rain, perhaps
4BLED
<i>A Little Night Music</i>
7LULLABY
Creatures formed from the fingers of the sea goddess Sedna, in Inuit myth
5SEALS
<i>Rock of Ages</i>
12ROSETTASTONE
Poet with a 1982 posthumous Pulitzer
5PLATH
Ending with Butler or Bard
3EDU
Japanese noodle
4SOBA
<i>Rent</i>
5SPLIT
One sporting an article of apparel
6WEARER
__ Lingus
3AER
Shapiro of public radio
3ARI
Played a part
5ACTED
Brig pair
5MASTS
<i>Into the Woods</i>
9OUTDOORSY
<i>A Class Act</i>
9FIELDTRIP
<i>The Producers</i>
11PROLETARIAT
Guitar, slangily
3AXE
In tears
7SOBBING
Fiddler on the Roof matchmaker
5YENTE
Pop group
5COLAS
Came about
5AROSE
Arnaz of "I Love Lucy"
4DESI
Do penance
5ATONE
Plus
5ASSET
____ Dame
5NOTRE
Intertwine
6ENLACE
Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End"
4ERMA
Halloween haul
6TREATS
One "T" of TNT
3TRI
How some medicines are taken
6ORALLY
Dodger's comeuppance?
8IRSAUDIT
Judge pro ___
3TEM
Oldsmobile Cutlass model
5CIERA
Advanced
4LENT
Chess pieces
3MEN
Apply
3USE
Became aware of
6SENSED
Hurdle for a J.D.-to-be
4LSAT
<i>Mean Girls</i>
12AVERAGEJANES
Front-of-the-line credential
7VIPPASS
Playground area, often
4PARK
Cousin of a mink
5STOAT
Makeshift tip collector
3HAT
Cheep trills?
8TWITTERS
"One of These Nights" band
9THEEAGLES
Gig of a lifetime
8DREAMJOB
Apt name for a distance runner?
5MILES
Least hale
8FEEBLEST
Like 45-Down's flaw
5FATAL
Sitar great Shankar
4RAVI
Mythical figure undone by hubris
6ICARUS
Indoor recess locale
3GYM
Dollop
3GOB
Prima ballerina
6ETOILE
Kylo of "Star Wars"
3REN
Super-excited, in slang
5TURNT
File often installed with computer programs
6README
Eschew the high road, say
5GOLOW
Piano pupil's practice piece
5ETUDE
Short boxers, e.g.
4PUPS
Fearsome felines
5LIONS
Foxx of 1970s TV
4REDD
Repeatedly hit hard
5POUND
Epitome of graceful beauty
4SWAN
Certain stock holder
9CATTLEPEN
<i>The Wiz</i>
8EINSTEIN
Downright mean
5NASTY
BASIC programming command
4GOTO
Borscht base
5BEETS
Hints
6TINGES
Classic theater name
6PALACE
Blue Ribbon brand
5PABST
Bit of wisdom
5PEARL
Do a diner job
3BUS
Transition points
5CUSPS
Part of AT&T: Abbr.
3TEL
Police weapon
5TASER
Gathering of moles
5INTEL
Blue-necked bird
3EMU
Like some cheese
4AGED
Buzzing nuisance
4GNAT
Glitzy fabric
4LAME
Gotcha!
4ISEE
Flock formation
3VEE
Believer
3IMA
Ice cream parlor offerings
5MALTS
Sources in etymology
9ROOTWORDS
Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak
6SMURFS
Chicken pieces
7TENDERS
Ballet or bourrée, in Bourgogne
5DANSE
String-plucking sound
5TWANG
Word with record or union
5LABEL
Some summers, in brief
4CPAS
World capital near the Andean foothills
8SANTIAGO
Black-and-white desserts
8OREOPIES
Setting for Cole Porter's "Anything Goes"
5OCEAN
Shell filling stations
8TACOBARS
Give a twist
6ROTATE
Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g.
5EVENT
Founder of the Mughal Empire
5BABUR
Université with a Pierre and Marie Curie campus
8SORBONNE
Struggles with sibilant sounds
5LISPS
Law, but not order
6CAREER
Prone
9PROSTRATE
Continued interminably
5RANON
Blue-winged bird
3JAY