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New York Times, Monday, December 22, 2025

December 22, 2025

By Suzanne Oliver • 76 Clues

Across Clues

1. Deep sleeps → COMAS
6. High-speed Amtrak train → ACELA
11. Word with punching or sleeping → BAG
14. One of a battery's poles → ANODE
15. Older but ___ → WISER
16. Under the weather → ILL
17. Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhaps → JAZZQUARTET
19. Day-___ paint → GLO
20. "Garfield" dog → ODIE
21. "It's freezing!" → BRR
22. Typical "Survivor" locales → ISLES
24. Rapper ___ Uzi Vert → LIL
25. Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two → JEDIMASTERS
28. Fish that may have an electric charge → EEL
29. Stammering sounds → ERS
30. Indignation → OUTRAGE
31. What each U.S. senator represents → STATE
33. Raggedy ___ → ANN
34. Breyers competitor → EDYS
35. Some exams allow them → OPENNOTES
39. Cops, slangily → POPO
42. Rode the bench → SAT
43. Yoga pose → ASANA
47. Enjoying great success → ONATEAR
49. What electric cars don't use → GAS
51. Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty" → LOW
52. Overly fussy → PERSNICKETY
54. Bit of forensic evidence → DNA
55. Pink ___ (rock band) → FLOYD
56. Singer DiFranco → ANI
57. Bill → BEAK
58. Mideast export → OIL
59. Cheat ... or a punny hint to the four sets of circled letters → SHORTCHANGE
63. French "a" → UNE
64. Hearing-related → AURAL
65. Playwright Chekhov → ANTON
66. Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient → LED
67. Easily irritated → TESTY
68. Romeo and Juliet, agewise → TEENS

Down Clues

1. Persuades with flattery → CAJOLES
2. Doing keto, perhaps → ONADIET
3. Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird → MOZILLA
4. Woodworking tool → ADZE
5. Orderly arrangement: Abbr. → SEQ
6. Oscars and Grammys, e.g. → AWARDS
7. Wispy clouds → CIRRI
8. Approx. → EST
9. Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" → LEE
10. Monet or Manet → ARTIST
11. Don't blow it! → BIGLEAD
12. Reaction to pollen, e.g. → ALLERGY
13. Shiny coatings → GLOSSES
18. Lyft competitor → UBER
23. Heart attack risk factor → STRESS
25. Cherokee maker → JEEP
26. "The kissing disease" → MONO
27. Em, to Dorothy → AUNT
32. Foot, in baby talk → TOOTSY
33. Word after fire or carpenter → ANT
36. Actor Morales → ESAI
37. Drug agent, informally → NARC
38. "No sweat!" → EASY
39. Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say → POPFOUL
40. Length of a pithy joke → ONELINE
41. Released from jail early → PAROLED
44. Pasta preference → ALDENTE
45. Nine-sided figure → NONAGON
46. Stirs from sleep → AWAKENS
48. Is over by → ENDSAT
49. With a light touch → GENTLY
50. Suffix with problem → ATIC
53. Gold standard → KARAT
57. Scourge → BANE
60. Shade of color → HUE
61. Surgery sites, in brief → ORS
62. Beanie or bowler → HAT