Missing Letter Crossword December 22 2025 Answers (12/22/25)

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The Missing Letter Crossword December 22, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	VERB: "to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays"
6A	Close pal
9A	Shade of green
10A	Looking for, briefly
11A	PLURAL NOUN: "specific sequence[s] of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that [are] located usually on a chromosome and that [are] the functional unit of inheritance controlling the transmission and expression of one or more traits"
12A	Johannesburg's nat.
13A	ADJECTIVE: "showy in [clothing]"
15A	NOUN: "the reflux of the tide toward the sea"
17A	NOUN: "any of numerous small often brightly colored South American characin fishes often bred in tropical aquariums"
19A	Cutty ___ (clipper ship)
21A	Mark Harmon show
22A	NOUN: "the most privileged piece of each color in a set of chessmen"
24A	NOUN: "the tough hard durable wood of [a certain] tree"
25A	NOUN: "an idyllic, exotic, or luxurious place"
27A	Mayall or Smits
28A	VERB: "to pay a call on as an act of friendship or courtesy"
31A	NOUN SUFFIX: "native; resident"
32A	Online party announcement
33A	PREPOSITION: "for each"
34A	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "1870–1924 originally Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov...Russian Communist leader"
1D	Feel like a ___ in the machine
2D	"Good job!"
3D	NOUN: "a jacket made of [non-porous] material"
4D	At any time
5D	Bowling alley button
6D	NOUN: "a child of one's uncle or aunt"
7D	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "ancient empire of western Asia extending along the middle course of the Tigris River and over foothills to the east; early capital Calah, later capital Nineveh"
8D	NOUN: "any of various usually very large extinct flightless birds of New Zealand"
14D	ABBREVIATION: "a member of...an assembly or council usually possessing high deliberative and legislative functions"
15D	Abbr. on some business cards
16D	NOUN: "an impure mixture of earthy hydrous aluminum oxides and hydroxides that is the principal source of aluminum"
18D	"That's all I ___!"
20D	NOUN: "the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge"
23D	NOUN: "a depression in the middle of the abdomen that marks the point of former attachment of the umbilical cord"
26D	Get into the pool quickly
27D	VERB: "to tear or split apart"
29D	"Lord, is ___?" (quote from Matthew)
30D	Bowling pin count

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