Newsday Crossword December 17 2025 Answers (12/17/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for December 17 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword December 17, 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 17, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 12/17/25, 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 Quick haircut
5A Fit for a royal ruler
10A Con game
14A Reduced-price event
15A Stood up
16A Part of TLC
17A Pop singer Tori
18A Carryall bags
19A Himalayas' continent
20A Top-class student
23A Gibbon or gorilla
25A Eve's first home
26A Tubular pasta
27A Greet informally
29A Salt Lake City collegian
31A Rowboat implement
32A Cunning action
33A Mouths, informally
37A Designation for a 20-Across
41A Never ever
42A Gain altitude
44A Pregrown grass
47A __ Faire (jousting venue)
48A Flows slowly (through)
49A Veal cuts
51A Practice boxing
54A Explosive initials
55A What a 20-Across receives
59A Actress __ Rae
60A Glaringly vivid
61A Clumsy person's comment
64A Ocean's cousins
65A Treat poorly
66A Creative thought
67A Ration (out)
68A Newspaper's papers
69A Finish a flight
1D Passenger screening org.
2D Lamb's father
3D Valentine message
4D Flat-topped hill
5D Evaluated
6D Wear away
7D Was accepted
8D "Hold on __" ("Be patient")
9D For fear that
10D Frighten
11D Gambling establishment
12D Singer star Grande
13D More cruel
21D Luau neckwear
22D Drama with singers
23D Nile snake
24D Good buddies
28D Choir music
29D "Semper Fi" org.
30D Prefix for scope
33D Handbag designer Spade
34D Clickable picture
35D Solar system center
36D "Of course"
38D Tapped-out "code" codeveloper
39D Low-cal fizzy beverage
40D SportsCenter airer
43D Superlative suffix
44D Factional rift
45D "Aha, understood"
46D Watched Fido
48D "Sold out" theater letters
50D Lunar view stage
51D "I don't know" gesture
52D Coolheadedness
53D South American range
56D Open-handed hit
57D Large brass instrument
58D Irritate
62D Farm enclosure
63D Sorrowful

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Christine Mielke

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