Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, December 29, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, December 29, 2025 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.7 letters. The longest answer is "THETOTALPACKAGE".
Total Clues
78
Longest
THETOTALPACKAGE
Avg Length
4.7
Shortest
BIO
Featured Clue
"Description for an ideal partner ... or what the ends of 17-, 27-, 39- and 47-Across create?"
15 Letters
THETOTALPACKAGE
ALLComplete Solution List
Condé ___ (magazine publisher)
4NAST
Fundamental belief
5TENET
Molars and canines
5TEETH
Soaks up
4SOPS
The "S" of NASA
5SPACE
Earth goddess
4GAIA
Outer limits
5EDGES
Life story, in brief
3BIO
Gives the ax
5FIRES
Stephen of "V for Vendetta"
3REA
Tin Man's need
3OIL
Chicago trains
3ELS
Tsk-tsk
5SHAME
Place to be pampered
3SPA
Particular place.
4SPOT
Humorist Bombeck
4ERMA
Alas!
5SADLY
Pumpkin, e.g.
5GOURD
Actor Michael of "Arrested Development"
4CERA
TV's "___ Lasso"
3TED
Cry like a baby
4BAWL
Caught sight of
6ESPIED
Really eager
4AGOG
Kind of bagel
6SESAME
Kerfuffle
3ADO
Motown or RCA
11RECORDLABEL
Where Shrek lives
5SWAMP
Seating area for 12 peers
7JURYBOX
Over here!
4PSST
Andean animal with a long neck
5LLAMA
Signal for an actor to go onstage
3CUE
Works that are heard rather than read
11BOOKSONTAPE
They're contained within books
5PAGES
Piece of Grubhub info, for short
3ETA
Description for an ideal partner ... or what the ends of 17-, 27-, 39- and 47-Across create?
15THETOTALPACKAGE
Stringed instrument that rests on the ground
5CELLO
Battle cry of the U.S. Marine Corps
5OORAH
Country that contains the southern slope of Mount Everest
5NEPAL
1996 #1 hit for the Spice Girls
7WANNABE
Water, in Colombia
4AGUA
Puppy sounds
4ARFS
Many a PC file
3PDF
Admired figures?
5IDOLS
Like the Mariana Trench
4DEEP
Put on TV
5AIRED
___ Grey tea
4EARL
Sister of Meg, Jo and Amy in "Little Women"
4BETH
Team that plays at Citi Field
4METS
Is severely underpaid
15WORKSFORPEANUTS
Onetime retail chain giant
5KMART
Tail-less cat
4MANX
Above, in poetry
3OER
Put into law
5ENACT
Without a date
4STAG
Two lengths of a pool
3LAP
Frozen snowman
4OLAF
Gimme a ___
3SEC
Not on time
4LATE
Synthetic fiber
5RAYON
Commoner
4PLEB
Fencing sword
4EPEE
Very light brown
4ECRU
Norway's capital
4OSLO
River past Cincinnati
4OHIO
Rushing yards, e.g., informally
4STAT
Move smoothly to another topic
5SEGUE
Seafood with claws
7LOBSTER
What a punch line may end
4JOKE
Slightly out of tune
6PITCHY
Tiny canine pest
4FLEA
The Falcons, on a scoreboard
3ATL
Lima's land
4PERU
Peculiar
3ODD
Ticked off
4TEED
Jeter in the Baseball Hall of Fame
5DEREK
Part of a drill assembly or comedy routine
3BIT
Drove over the legal limit
4SPED
"Well, dang it!"
6OHRATS