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New York Times, Monday, December 8, 2025

December 09, 2025

By Dan Kammann and Zhouqin Burnikel • 78 Clues

Across Clues

1. Sir's counterpart → MADAM
6. Folded Mexican snack → TACO
10. Young chap → LAD
13. "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley → OPERA
14. Sean of "The Lord of the Rings" → ASTIN
16. Chicken ___ king → ALA
17. Wyoming skiing mecca → JACKSONHOLE
19. Female pig → SOW
20. Gold, in Spanish → ORO
21. Dessert with icing → CAKE
22. Motor City hoopster → PISTON
24. Run out of clothes? → STREAK
26. Like an envelope that's ready to be sent → SEALED
28. ___ Major (constellation) → URSA
30. "Enola Holmes" actress ___ Bobby Brown → MILLIE
32. Bicycle shorts material → LYCRA
35. Computer image → SCAN
37. ID checkers at an airport → TSA
39. Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhood → SOHO
40. Finger or toe ... or, when read as two words, what you can do to the ends of 17- and 62-Across and 10- and 34-Down → DIGIT
41. "Get outta here!" → SCAT
42. Artificial colorant → DYE
43. Half of a train track → RAIL
44. "That's boring!" → HOHUM
45. Starting point → ORIGIN
48. Grand ___ (achievement in baseball or tennis) → SLAM
50. Hardest to find → RAREST
52. "Let me clarify ..." → IMEANT
56. Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there" → SLYNOD
58. Top poker cards → ACES
60. Monarch at Versailles → ROI
61. Golfer's target ... or prize → CUP
62. End successfully → WORKOUTWELL
65. Comedian Wong → ALI
66. Medieval stringed instruments → LUTES
67. "___, meenie, miney, mo" → EENIE
68. Crunchy sandwich, for short → BLT
69. Camp shelter → TENT
70. Religious ceremonies → RITES

Down Clues

1. Magic charms → MOJOS
2. Not together → APART
3. Interior design → DECOR
4. Genesis boat → ARK
5. The eyes may have it → MASCARA
6. Scuba gear → TANK
7. Remnants of a volcanic spew → ASHES
8. Corp. exec overseeing engineers, say → CTO
9. Stuff on an artist's palette → OILPAINT
10. Eleventh-hour → LASTDITCH
11. Potatoes, in Indian cooking → ALOO
12. From ___ to dusk → DAWN
15. Actor Sam of "Jurassic Park" → NEILL
18. Acorn droppers → OAKS
23. Salt, in Paris → SEL
25. Money across the Atlantic → EURO
27. Messages on which you might be cc'd → EMAILS
29. Iraqis and Iranians → ASIANS
31. Biblical brother of Jacob → ESAU
32. Psychedelic tab → LSD
33. Toy on a string that's not a kite → YOYO
34. Center of a stone fruit → CHERRYPIT
36. Film special effects, for short → CGI
38. After-hours source of $$$ → ATM
40. Lost moisture → DRIEDOUT
41. Nonspecific amount → SOME
44. Pet that stores food in cheek pouches → HAMSTER
46. Author Fleming → IAN
47. What empty stomachs do → GROWL
49. In ___ of → LIEU
51. No longer available → TAKEN
53. "There ___ enough hours in the day" → ARENT
54. "That's the truth!" → NOLIE
55. Mosaic pieces → TILES
56. Covering over a wound → SCAB
57. Pause in the action → LULL
59. "It's gonna ___ you!" → COST
63. Hwy. → RTE
64. Early Chinese dynasty → WEI