Our New Yorker Crossword December 29, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.
The New Yorker Crossword December 29, 2025 Answers
If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 12/29/25, 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 |
“Alligator Bites Never ___” (Doechii release that won the Grammy for Best Rap Album in February, 2025) |
| 5A |
Some E.R. caregivers |
| 8A |
Ashen quality |
| 14A |
Section of Bach’s Mass in B Minor based on an aria from his “Ascension” Oratorio |
| 16A |
Grande whose “Brighter Days Ahead” won Video of the Year at the V.M.A.s (September, 2025) |
| 17A |
Sabrina Carpenter hit with the lyric “If I’m not there, it won’t get done” (June, 2025) |
| 18A |
“KPop Demon Hunters” song that spent seven consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 beginning in August, 2025 |
| 19A |
Rattler, e.g. |
| 20A |
Actor and musician Jared |
| 22A |
Muslim holiday |
| 23A |
Sweet wine |
| 25A |
Rapper who hosted a thirty-one-show residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in support of his album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” (July-September, 2025) |
| 28A |
“Music in the Tuileries Gardens” painter Manet |
| 31A |
Pioneering double-bassist Gary who died in July, 2025 |
| 32A |
Bank deposit? |
| 33A |
Desire |
| 35A |
Marin who conducted the final round of the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (June, 2025) |
| 39A |
___ tai (rum cocktail) |
| 40A |
Singer who won her first Album of the Year Grammy, after four prior nominations, for “Cowboy Carter” (February, 2025) |
| 42A |
Sports-bar sets |
| 43A |
“The sun,” in Spanish |
| 45A |
Sullen |
| 46A |
Region |
| 47A |
French chef and restaurateur Lefebvre |
| 49A |
Diaper brand with a yellow heart in its logo |
| 51A |
Rapper Lamar who performed “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl a week after the song won all five of its Grammy nominations (February, 2025) |
| 55A |
When repeated, a Hawaiian fish |
| 56A |
Texter’s “As I see it . . .” |
| 57A |
Approved |
| 59A |
Cello protectors |
| 62A |
Double-bassist Orin ___ (subject of “The Only Girl in the Orchestra,” which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film in March, 2025) |
| 65A |
Singer whose hit single “Abracadabra” was hailed by the Times as “a gloriously nostalgic return to form” (February, 2025) |
| 67A |
Reduce the strength of |
| 68A |
Final steps for home buyers |
| 69A |
Stick (to) |
| 70A |
“___ Engel” (song by the acclaimed composer Sofia Gubaidulina, who died in March, 2025) |
| 71A |
Big fusses |
| 1D |
Clove-studded meal centerpieces |
| 2D |
“Manhattan Beach” author Jennifer |
| 3D |
Maryland city that’s home to the Baygrass Music Festival |
| 4D |
Succeed by chance |
| 5D |
Ovid’s 1501 |
| 6D |
Farmer’s place, in song |
| 7D |
LP half |
| 8D |
Asian temple |
| 9D |
Unlikely to have a thing for someone, for short |
| 10D |
Rapper ___ Kim |
| 11D |
Weighed down |
| 12D |
“There’s ___ every crowd!” |
| 13D |
Country legend Travis who was the subject of a tribute from Carrie Underwood in the concert special “Opry 100: A Live Celebration” (March, 2025) |
| 15D |
Princess of Power of eighties TV |
| 21D |
Gotten into, as a hobby |
| 24D |
“Can’t argue with that” |
| 26D |
Scottish hillside |
| 27D |
Online address |
| 28D |
J. D. Salinger’s “For ___—with Love and Squalor” |
| 29D |
Rotary-phone feature |
| 30D |
Shipyard site used for maintenance and repairs |
| 34D |
Sticky stuff |
| 36D |
Barbra who released the duet album “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two” in June, 2025 |
| 37D |
“___ the Rainbow” |
| 38D |
Ad Council ads, briefly |
| 40D |
Feature of a fuzzy image |
| 41D |
Do all of one’s studying just before the exam |
| 44D |
“Oh, this ___ thing?” |
| 46D |
Medical term for the inability to swallow |
| 48D |
“Walk On By” singer Warwick |
| 50D |
“Miracle on 34th Street” retailer |
| 51D |
Oklahoma tribe |
| 52D |
Plant firmly |
| 53D |
Jones whose “Visions” won the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (February, 2025) |
| 54D |
Travis who is widely understood to be the subject of Taylor Swift’s innuendo-laced song “Wood” (October, 2025) |
| 58D |
“Surrealist Piano” sculptor |
| 60D |
Maker of frozen waffles |
| 61D |
Get lippy with |
| 63D |
Presidential nickname of the nineteen-fifties |
| 64D |
Auction’s end? |
| 66D |
Richard Strauss’s “___ Quixote” |
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