[Don't open this at the office!] Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for [Don't open this at the office!] crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword December 10, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

[Don't open this at the office!] Crossword Answer

↓42.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definitions

OFFICE (noun)
1. a job in an organization
2. the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
OPEN (adjective)
1. (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
2. not defended or capable of being defended
OPEN (verb)
1. start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
2. spread out or open from a closed or folded state
OPEN (noun)
1. a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
2. where the air is unconfined

More NYT Crossword (12/10/2025) Answers

Across

1. "___ been had!"

5. Shoo away, in a way

11. Thunderbolt wielder

15. First name in daring jumps

16. City NE of Olympia

17. Familiar with the tricks of

18. Emulates a dog around the family dinner table

19. Like voice mail messages, for example

21. Red "Inside Out" character

23. OUT OF ORDER! PAPER TRAY REQUIRES MAINTENANCE!

24. J.F.K. Library architect

25. Verbal hesitations

27. “No ___!”

31. Like some boarding school attire

33. Green dispensaries?

37. Iconic repeated Keanu Reeves role

38. Bit of condensation

39. Type of flooded field

42. Protected lands for plants and animals

44. OUT OF ORDER! USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!

45. One who is acting?

46. Corp. money bigwig

47. Some pearls of wisdom

48. Third-party holding

51. Used to have

54. ___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader

55. Time piece

56. Hole in the wall

61. Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim"

63. Love poem opener

67. Article of pool equipment

68. Children's author Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

69. OUT OF ORDER! USE SECOND-FLOOR BATHROOM INSTEAD!

70. Corn container

71. Release steam

72. Diocese assemblies

73. Final boss in the game God of War

All Answers

Down

1. Software accessed via an online browser

2. Game-tying goal

3. Healthier version of a breakfast side dish

4. “Or ___ what?”

5. Longtime NASCAR sponsor

6. Alters the shape of

7. Dell competitor

8. Singer Amos

9. 'You can say that again!'

10. Sensitivity

11. Secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega

12. Ax, so to speak

13. Beehive State athlete

14. Grassy section

20. Source of 3.5 million quotations, for short

22. Performer of the 1992 dance song "Supermodel (You Better Work)"

26. Greek figures with multiple heads

28. Status of 23-, 44- and 69-Across, as indicated by their clues and placement in the grid

29. Trampoline mats

30. Elf product

32. Org. opposed to "speciesism"

33. Common street sign symbol

34. Several things in a pagoda

35. Party starters, in brief

36. Sowing machine

40. "To your health!," in Germany

41. ___ gaz (carbonated: Fr.)

43. One of four rhyming letters

44. Modern prefix with village

49. "The Matrix" character, with "the"

50. "Nuts!"

52. Standing

53. Aachen article

54. "There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi

57. Some needle work, in brief

58. "Community" character played by Donald Glover

59. Apt letters missing from _ _stra_ _

60. Songwriter Guthrie

62. ___ Minor

63. Fire (up)

64. Prize that a prospector pries

65. Sloth e.g.

66. Some N.F.L. linemen

All Answers