Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, December 30, 2025 features 75 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "AUSPICIOUS".
Total Clues
75
Longest
AUSPICIOUS
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
ALA
Featured Clue
"Like good omens"
10 Letters
AUSPICIOUS
ALLComplete Solution List
Attracts
5LURES
Absolument
6OUIOUI
Break away (from)
6SECEDE
Wet floor?
6SEABED
In the style of
3ALA
And __ bed
4SOTO
That's not good ...
5YIKES
Opera excerpt
4ARIA
Perfect score, in Olympic diving
3TEN
Make a case for
5ARGUE
Upside-down frown
5SMILE
Exist
3ARE
Many bills in tip jars
4ONES
Prefix with metric
3ISO
Sudden shocks
5JOLTS
Scoundrels
4CADS
Shared by us
4OURS
Casual turndown
3NAH
That's not good ...
4OHNO
__-nothing
3NIL
Skip over, in speech
5ELIDE
Sardinia, e.g., to Sardinians
5ISOLA
Cookies with their name embossed on them
5OREOS
"Nothing but ___!" (reaction to a swish)
3NET
Mimicked
4APED
They're pulled to garner media attention, informally
8PRSTUNTS
Dr. Seuss' "And to Think That ___ It on Mulberry Street"
4ISAW
Parts not filled in
4GAPS
Flashy cycling maneuvers
9BMXTRICKS
"Sunday Night Football" producer
9NBCSPORTS
Play loudly, as from a speaker
5BLARE
[That looks delicious ...]
5DROOL
Floating markers
5BUOYS
Brand of cooler named for a mythical beast
4YETI
What a new hire might learn, with "the"
5ROPES
The eyes of an emoticon, typically
5COLON
Pointed end of a pen
3NIB
To thine own ___ be true
4SELF
Something to wave with pride?
9LGBTQFLAG
Hard-to-clean-up sparkly stuff
7GLITTER
Music's Run the Jewels or Rae Sremmurd, e.g.
6RAPDUO
Psychic's alleged ability, for short
3ESP
Fizzled out completely
8WENTPFFT
Opposite of credit
5DEBIT
4 on a par 3, e.g.
5BOGEY
Used a stool, say
3SAT
Like good omens
10AUSPICIOUS
Sudden, powerful gust of wind
6SQUALL
College instructor, for short
4PROF
Apex predator of the ocean
4ORCA
Homes on branches
5NESTS
__ Day (April observance)
5ARBOR
Not act up
6BEHAVE
Extremes of the earth
5POLES
___ Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean
4KARA
The Thinker sculptor
5RODIN
Yokel
4RUBE
Pored (over)
7PERUSED
Nightwear, informally
3PJS
Climactic fight in a video game
10BOSSBATTLE
Fashion inits. in Manhattan
4DKNY
Oblong tomato type
4ROMA
0% filled
5EMPTY
Fuzzy-feeling leather
5SUEDE
Scientist Hubble with a telescope named after him
5EDWIN
Marks, as a ballot square
5XESIN
Those, en español
4ESOS
Fun word to shout into a canyon
4ECHO
Athleisure brand originally from Italy
4FILA
Making a plate appearance
5ATBAT
Puts on, as a jacket
4DONS
Casual collared shirt
4POLO
Lose traction
4SLIP
Desire
3YEN
"OK, go ahead"
4SURE