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New York Times, Friday, December 5, 2025

December 06, 2025

By James McCarron • 68 Clues

Across Clues

1. Home to Kotoka International Airport → GHANA

6. Many a wearer of a long robe called a thawb → SAUDI

11. Can't-miss purchases? → SEASONTICKETS

14. Words of caution → DONTPOKETHEBEAR

16. Threshold → EVE

17. Ties up → ENLACES

18. Coastal waterway → RIA

19. Up → RISEN

21. Subject of the Bouguereau painting "The Abduction of Psyche" → EROS

22. Colombian city of 2+ million → CALI

23. Dutch artist Jan van der ___ → MEER

24. Curtail → STEM

25. Stick in an orchestra → BATON

26. Spot likely to smear → ATTACKAD

28. They aren't party people → LONERS

29. Cut, as with a box cutter → SLIT

30. "Fun-size" → MINI

31. Film with the tagline "Someone has taken their love for scary movies one step too far" → SCREAM

34. Words of retaliation → TAKETHAT

38. Word with fire or false → ALARM

39. Hotel listing → RATE

40. One and the other → BOTH

41. Big name in chip production → LAYS

42. Bundle → PILE

43. Sauce whose name derives from the Italian word for "crush" → PESTO

44. Refuge → ARK

45. Where much of "Brokeback Mountain" was filmed → ALBERTA

47. It's perfect → TEN

48. "Might as well give it a shot ..." → HEREGOESNOTHING

51. Age at which you just learned something you should have realized before, facetiously → TODAYYEARSOLD

52. Something blocked by censors → CURSE

53. 1944 Pacific battle site → LEYTE

Down Clues

1. What clones share → GENESET

2. It might be on a rack → HAT

3. Ski town that shares its name with a tree → ASPEN

4. "High" time → NOON

5. Image that's just over a foot, informally → ANKLETAT

6. "Arrested Development," e.g. → SITCOM

7. Pines → ACHES

8. Relatives of banjoleles → UKES

9. Nebraska senator Fischer → DEB

10. Repeat → ITERATE

11. Council, in Russian → SOVIET

12. Got misty → TEARED

13. Sea shanty singer → SAILOR

14. Skin layer with hair follicles → DERMA

15. Show stoppers, sometimes → RAINS

20. Items on many a back-to-school supply list → ERASERS

22. "Is this possible?!?" → CANITBE

24. Take a little off the top → SKIM

25. Dog treat → BONE

27. Silent sort → CLAM

28. Fancy → LIKE

30. Kind of instinct → MATERNAL

31. Mohamed ___, Egyptian soccer star → SALAH

32. Shade of red → CLARET

33. Big name in fast food → RAYKROC

34. "Honor Thy Father" writer, 1971 → TALESE

35. Argumentative → HOSTILE

36. Get to → ATTEND

37. Minimal coverage provider? → THONG

39. Hearty steakhouse serving → RIBEYE

42. Tricks → PLOYS

43. Unwitting mark → PATSY

45. Thickening agent found in many vegan recipes → AGAR

46. Raced → TORE

49. Dot follower in academia → EDU

50. Spicy → HOT