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The New Yorker Crossword December 23, 2025 Answers
If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 12/23/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!
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| # |
Clue |
| 1A |
“The Farewell Symphony” author Edmund, whom Seán Hewitt called “the patron saint of queer literature” upon his death in June, 2025 |
| 6A |
Degs. held by Scott Turow and Charles Yu |
| 9A |
Harpoon or javelin |
| 14A |
Work at a wedding, perhaps |
| 15A |
“Bury ___ Bones in the Midnight Soil” (V. E. Schwab lesbian-vampire best-seller of June, 2025) |
| 16A |
Electric opening? |
| 17A |
Author whose novel “Flashlight” is framed by a man’s mysterious disappearance while walking on a Japanese beach (June, 2025) |
| 19A |
Journal jotting |
| 20A |
From Damascus, say |
| 21A |
“Say Yes to the Dress” network |
| 22A |
Beltway V.I.P. |
| 23A |
“Maid in Manhattan” star, for short |
| 25A |
Ancient Chinese dynasty of legend |
| 29A |
“___ Karenina” |
| 32A |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel whose title refers to the idealistic way one of its characters takes stock of her past relationships (March, 2025) |
| 35A |
Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima, for two |
| 37A |
Merge |
| 38A |
Boring routine |
| 39A |
Story line |
| 40A |
Capital of Zimbabwe? |
| 42A |
“___ Thesaurus” (Franklin Pierce Adams ode) |
| 43A |
Complete one-eighty |
| 45A |
Stage magicians’ feats |
| 48A |
Vincenzo Latronico novel that updates Georges Perec’s “Things: A Story of the Sixties” for the Instagram age (trans. March, 2025) |
| 50A |
Like the e-books on Project Gutenberg |
| 51A |
Arduous journey |
| 52A |
Permit |
| 53A |
Thurman of Hollywood |
| 55A |
Dubai’s country, for short |
| 57A |
Winning blackjack combo |
| 60A |
Witty Wilde |
| 63A |
1984 Nettie Jones novel, rereleased in April, 2025, which the critic Namwali Serpell described as “far more daring for its time than any of the recent literary trends that have had everyone blushing and gasping and scribbling” |
| 66A |
Ocean whose novel “The Emperor of Gladness” is based in part on his experience as a restaurant worker (May, 2025) |
| 67A |
Some hospital-drama settings, for short |
| 68A |
Élite invitees |
| 69A |
“Wait for it. . . . O.K., start!” |
| 70A |
Début novel from Michael Clune about a hyperliterate teen-ager who believes his anxiety is caused by a Greek god (July, 2025) |
| 71A |
Mario Vargas ___ (Peruvian Nobelist who died in April, 2025) |
| 1D |
Lavs |
| 2D |
Domicile, in Dresden |
| 3D |
___-bitsy |
| 4D |
Rips into |
| 5D |
Happy-go-lucky Sesame Street resident |
| 6D |
“Rabbit at Rest” author Updike |
| 7D |
Partnership |
| 8D |
___ Lanka |
| 9D |
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” author Silverstein |
| 10D |
Thomas whose novel “Shadow Ticket” was his first in twelve years (October, 2025) |
| 11D |
New Yorker’s summer hrs. |
| 12D |
Flight-status abbr. |
| 13D |
“Mother Mary Comes to Me” memoirist Arundhati, who called her mother her “most enthralling subject” (September, 2025) |
| 18D |
Forthrightness |
| 23D |
Fast plane |
| 24D |
Krasznahorkai who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary œuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art” (October, 2025) |
| 26D |
Mr. Darcy or Mr. Bingley, in “Pride and Prejudice” |
| 27D |
Chant |
| 28D |
Relaxed |
| 29D |
Unceremonious |
| 30D |
Neither masculine nor feminine, grammatically |
| 31D |
“Things in ___ Merely Grow” (memoir published in May, 2025, in which Yiyun Li writes, “It takes an instant for death to become a fact”) |
| 33D |
Perform a poem, say |
| 34D |
Signals on set |
| 36D |
Window part |
| 41D |
What Viola disguises herself as, in “Twelfth Night” |
| 44D |
Author of “Katabasis,” a fantasy novel about a grad student who travels to Hell to save the professor she accidentally killed (August, 2025) |
| 46D |
Took a flame to |
| 47D |
“. . . or maybe not even that” |
| 49D |
The Cavaliers, on an N.B.A. scoreboard |
| 54D |
Calcium or copper |
| 56D |
Jason’s ship, in myth |
| 57D |
Org. |
| 58D |
“Conversations in Sicily” author Vittorini |
| 59D |
Loch ___ monster |
| 60D |
Parts of zygotes |
| 61D |
Chicago ___-Times (newspaper that ran an A.I.-generated summer-reading list featuring nonexistent books, in May, 2025) |
| 62D |
Relative of a haddock |
| 63D |
Dandyish dresser |
| 64D |
Lyricist Gershwin |
| 65D |
R.R. stop |
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