Newsday Crossword December 16 2025 Answers (12/16/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for December 16 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword December 16, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

There is a new puzzle to work through each day of the week. This crossword is considered to be balanced between being fun and engaging with some challenge but entirely solvable without tearing one’s hair out!

Newsday Crossword December 16, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 12/16/25, 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 Touches on the shoulder
5A Sounds of regret
10A Traditional kilt wearer
14A Clear-sky color
15A Be patient for
16A Measly
17A Really ticked off
18A Filled with dryer fuzz
19A Back of an envelope
20A Sea bordering Saudi Arabia
23A Make a knot in
24A Calculate a sum
25A Annoy greatly
27A "Canine" trees
32A "__ Sir or Madam..."
33A Night before a holiday
34A Use as a bed
36A Justice Kagan
39A Gala party
41A First Soviet leader
43A Self-images
44A Courtroom event
46A Short skirts
48A Hill-building insect
49A Cpls. and sgts.
51A Part-spaniel mixed-breed canine
53A Most-spoken language in Africa
56A Baby goat
57A Defiant cry
58A No longer valid
64A Molecule portion
66A Cash, informally
67A Swirling current
68A Took a tumble
69A Biblical hymn
70A "__ of your business!"
71A Difficult journey
72A Taste or hearing
73A Walked heavily (on)
1D Cookbook meas.
2D __ vera gel
3D Contented cat's sound
4D Playground plank
5D Liquid in dressing
6D "You're defeated!"
7D Group of outlaws
8D Ask to borrow cash
9D Arranged, as hair
10D Sunscreen letters
11D Difference between two societies
12D Walking __ (elated)
13D Laid-back person
21D Revered person
22D At no cost
26D "Tall" story
27D Skillful
28D Turn __ a new leaf
29D Have extensive debts
30D Consider to be
31D __ boom (jet sound)
35D Spanish boy
37D Taboo thing
38D Concerning, in memos
40D Per item
42D Sam for Samuel, for instance
45D "Tender" beef cut
47D Slide on an icy road
50D Losing streaks
52D Beginning
53D Elevator passageway
54D Reservoir contents
55D "You defeated me"
59D Money borrowed
60D "__ well that ends well"
61D Strong smell
62D SSN, to the IRS
63D Recolored
65D Jan. holiday honoree

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