Missing Letter Crossword December 17 2025 Answers (12/17/25)

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The Missing Letter Crossword December 17, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	ADJECTIVE: "experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight"
5A	ADVERB: "near in place, time, or relationship"
9A	Mononymous "99 Luftballons" singer
10A	NOUN: "a tall annual herb (Abelmoschus esculentus) of the mallow family that is cultivated for its mucilaginous green pods used especially in soups or stews"
11A	NOUN: "a whole body of...native or naturalized person[s] who owe...allegiance to a government and [are] entitled to protection from it"
13A	NOUN: "a hardy cabbage...with curled often finely incised leaves that do not form a dense head"
14A	Jazzy genre
17A	NOUN: "a manufactured covering of natural or synthetic hair for the head"
20A	Culinary hotspot
21A	Between mini- and maxi-
22A	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "I(eoh) M(ing) 1917–2019 American (Chinese-born) architect"
23A	NOUN: "a usually cotton-filled mattress used on the floor or in a frame as a bed, couch, or chair"
24A	VERB: "to speak or cry out with derision or mockery"
26A	NOUN: "an electronic communication system in which spoken messages are recorded or digitized and stored for later playback by the intended recipient"
31A	___ occasion (never)
32A	PREPOSITION: "used as a function word to indicate a limit or boundary"
33A	NOUN: "one of the 12 divisions of the zodiac"
34A	NOUN: "freedom from activity or labor"
1D	Pittsburgh-based chain of health stores
2D	NOUN: "a wreath or necklace usually of flowers or leaves"
3D	NOUN: "any of a family (Formicidae) of colonial hymenopterous insects with a complex social organization and various castes performing special duties"
4D	NOUN: "a large long hard white radish used especially in Asian cuisine"
5D	"Joyeux ___" (French for "Merry Christmas")
6D	IDIOM: "used when someone has confirmed what one has already guessed"
7D	Guard dog's warning
8D	NOUN: "herbage and especially grass mowed and cured for fodder"
12D	VERB: "to hit with...a sudden concentrated application of force"
14D	Hit on the head
15D	Hewson in "Bad Sisters"
16D	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "municipality constituting a special administrative unit in northeastern China and serving as the national capital"
18D	Wedding-day phrase
19D	Game that's also a drink
21D	NOUN: "a low indistinct but often continuous sound"
23D	One-time charge
25D	NOUN: "a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services"
26D	High-IQ columnist Marilyn ___ Savant
27D	Suffix with pepper
28D	Go ___ (flip out)
29D	Carole King's "___ Too Late"
30D	Place to park

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