New Yorker Crossword December 9 2025 Answers (12/9/25)

Our New Yorker Crossword December 9, 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 9, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 12/9/25, 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	Media sometimes stored in sleeves
4A	Sound from a firework
8A	___ force (power instead of precision)
13A	“We should!”
15A	Not repeatedly
16A	Not-so-sociable sort
17A	Country bordered by Saudi Arabia
18A	Comparative conjunction
19A	Part of a camel or cow
20A	Tower with multiple upward-curving roofs
22A	Decked out
24A	Buying or selling, e.g.
26A	Head into
27A	Blues cover?
29A	Type of heron
30A	“Chernobyl” actor Harris
31A	What follows four score and seven years?
34A	High-stakes face-off
35A	Worker with stone or brick
36A	Mark that remains after healing
37A	Evergreen of the genus Taxus
38A	“___ tov!”
39A	Fissile rock
40A	Temptations album with the No. 1 song “I Can’t Get Next to You”
42A	Second half of a rhyming dance name
43A	Kami Rita ___ (climber who has summited Everest a record thirty-one times)
44A	Fast-food chain with the same parent company as Hardee’s
46A	Wager the requisite amount
48A	___ knots (natural hair style)
49A	Food, casually
51A	Description on a shoppe sign
52A	With 53-Across, escape
53A	See 52-Across
54A	Escape
55A	Units that divide during mitosis
56A	“I will no longer lightly walk behind / a one of you who ___ me”: June Jordan
57A	Georgia’s capital, briefly
1D	Hoof-on-pavement sound
2D	Leader who uses prejudice for political gain
3D	Group in charge of lighting and props
4D	Branch of study that might involve studying branches
5D	Common first name in Vietnam
6D	March Madness org.
7D	Expectations perpetuated by cisnormativity
8D	Said without stopping to think, with “out”
9D	“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” author Walter
10D	Hypnotized or anesthetized
11D	___ up (readied)
12D	Go astray
14D	Equipment for a shallow dive
21D	Musical pairing
23D	Japanese hot spring
25D	Musician whose character on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” often got thrown out of the house
27D	Actress and inventor Lamarr
28D	Painting holder
31D	Unaccompanied, in a way
32D	University in the documentary “Deaf President Now!”
33D	Willie who was the first Black player in the N.H.L.
35D	Labyrinths
36D	Except for
38D	Boots with a Yupik name
39D	Perceived
40D	Sci-fi door
41D	Sci-fi side arm
42D	Solar ___ (power-conversion device)
44D	Word after self or community
45D	Far from everyday
47D	Instruction on the back of a sticker
48D	U.K. airer of “Luther” and “Ludwig”
50D	Drink served by a bobarista

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