Our New Yorker Crossword December 31, 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 31, 2025 Answers
If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 12/31/25, 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 |
Nail-___ (game that goes into overtime, say) |
| 6A |
Clown for the camera |
| 9A |
Planets, poetically |
| 13A |
Advocate and sexual-violence survivor Pelicot who was named one of Time’s Women of the Year (February, 2025) |
| 14A |
Government org. that kick-started a major deregulation effort in March, 2025 |
| 15A |
1970 hit for the Kinks |
| 16A |
Name taken by Robert Francis Prevost upon his ascension to the papacy (May, 2025) |
| 17A |
“The ___” (nineties CBC show about a group of First Nations young people) |
| 18A |
“That’s my cue!” |
| 19A |
“Honey, Honey” and “Money, Money, Money” band |
| 20A |
Nickname given to the leak of an air-strike-related group chat to which The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was mistakenly added (March, 2025) |
| 23A |
Conclude |
| 25A |
Word before school or spa |
| 26A |
Actor McKellen |
| 27A |
Do something wrong |
| 28A |
A$AP ___ (hip-hop collective) |
| 30A |
Like the athletes targeted by a Title IX-based Trump executive order (February, 2025) |
| 33A |
Slogan for the anti-Trump demonstrations held across the U.S. in June and October, 2025 |
| 37A |
Beginning of the names of some blended juices |
| 38A |
Hunter’s garb, for short |
| 41A |
Download for a Kindle |
| 42A |
Code used to build a web page |
| 43A |
Oodles |
| 44A |
“___ is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice”: William Jennings Bryan |
| 46A |
Extracted from the earth |
| 48A |
Double ___ (ultra-hoppy beer) |
| 49A |
Fractions of lbs. |
| 52A |
“Foucault’s Pendulum” novelist Umberto |
| 53A |
Philosophical conclusion? |
| 55A |
Card deck that includes the Sun, the Moon, and the World |
| 57A |
Energy-intensive computing facility, such as those slated for construction in the half-trillion-dollar Stargate Project (announced in January, 2025) |
| 61A |
___ Commission (R.F.K., Jr.-chaired group whose strategy report was called “a grab bag of questionable talking points” by the Union of Concerned Scientists, in September, 2025) |
| 62A |
“The Wire” character played by Michael K. Williams |
| 63A |
Category of H.R. initiatives described as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” in a Trump executive order (January, 2025) |
| 64A |
Short-story writer who coined the phrase “banana republic” |
| 66A |
“___ your loins!” |
| 67A |
“Fresh Air” airer |
| 68A |
Twosome in “payday” |
| 69A |
Brand whose logo uses an ice-cream cone in place of an apostrophe |
| 70A |
Mentions directly on X or Bluesky |
| 71A |
Nash who wrote “I don’t mind eels / Except as meals” |
| 1D |
“Daisies” singer Justin |
| 2D |
Curved line on a weather map |
| 3D |
State whose legislature passed a congressional map gerrymandered in Republicans’ favor, despite a two-week walkout by Democrats (August, 2025) |
| 4D |
Former Giants quarterback Manning |
| 5D |
Pumps (up) |
| 6D |
Combine, as companies |
| 7D |
Flip over |
| 8D |
Territory in which one out of every ten residents had been injured or killed during the Israel-Hamas war, as of October, 2025 |
| 9D |
Fighting ___ Tour (series of Bernie Sanders-led rallies that kicked off in February, 2025) |
| 10D |
Some classical mosaic and sculpture |
| 11D |
Rorschach-test stimulus |
| 12D |
All there, in a way |
| 13D |
Candied, as fruits |
| 21D |
Have a few |
| 22D |
___ crit (English major’s forte, informally) |
| 24D |
My Chemical Romance genre |
| 29D |
Gave a thumbs-up |
| 31D |
“TV Buddha” artist ___ June Paik |
| 32D |
TV show whose fiftieth-anniversary celebrations culminated in a star-studded three-hour special (February, 2025) |
| 33D |
Stationery-store buys |
| 34D |
Figs. |
| 35D |
When the rubber hits the road |
| 36D |
“I don’t want to listen to this song” |
| 38D |
“Kiss ___” (Google search term that spiked in popularity after a Coldplay concert in July, 2025) |
| 39D |
Frazier’s opponent in the Fight of the Century |
| 40D |
The second “M” of macroeconomics’ M.M.T. |
| 45D |
Turner who led an antislavery rebellion |
| 47D |
Bespectacled friend of Snow White |
| 49D |
Color for the Sports & Leisure category in the classic version of Trivial Pursuit |
| 50D |
Mamdani who was elected mayor of New York City in November, 2025 |
| 51D |
Remains behind |
| 53D |
Lacking skill |
| 54D |
Provokes |
| 56D |
Make a change to |
| 57D |
Org. led by Elon Musk until his departure from federal service in May, 2025 |
| 58D |
Surrounded by |
| 59D |
“The Simpsons” teacher ___ Krabappel |
| 60D |
Caramel-filled chocolate candy |
| 65D |
Take all of, as a blanket |
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