Newsday Crossword December 20 2025 Answers (12/20/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for December 20 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword December 20, 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 20, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 12/20/25, 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 Unreal
6A Shawl, for instance
10A It's attractive
14A Most easily tied
15A One on a receiving line
16A Dallas Buyers Club Oscar actor
17A Pyramid schemes
19A Engaged
20A Knuckle-head activity
21A Apostolic Palace adjective
23A Free time
25A Isn't consistent
26A Give it up
30A Sound like a fan
31A Animale dello zodiaco
32A Gig for a guru
35A It surrounds Canada's southernmost land
37A Wranglers for a week
39A Status
40A Prototypical pasta processor
42A Capital of Algeria
44A Military Families Mo.
45A Bunk
48A Square, as for satisfaction
50A Rapdom's close relative
51A Cutting-edge powder source
53A "Give it up!"
56A Reason for boxing
57A Alarmists' antithesis
60A Tahiti et autres
61A Maintain
62A Partner in Niagara Falls hydroelectrification (1890s)
63A Erstwhile M&Ms
64A Nonmusical drums
65A Words for argument's sake
1D Excluding
2D Not decided
3D Most favored
4D Spread out, in a way
5D Landfill lander
6D Your bag
7D __ meat
8D Expression of condescension
9D "A book which people __ and don't read" (Twain on "Classic")
10D Word from the Spanish for "little silver"
11D Frozen
12D What might make you smart
13D Fully, these days
18D With a steel grip, quite possibly
22D Debug?
24D Going-away party
26D Dropped
27D Full
28D "This is bliss!"
29D Brits who get gin on their birthday
33D Trail in good order
34D Turns quickly
36D "Disorderly" dessert served at a Harrow cricket match
38D Oral
41D Consequently
43D Luger, for instance
46D Subject of the literary analysis Angels and Wild Things
47D Breaks even
48D Pass word
49D Beethoven's Fifth soloist
52D No nickname for a scriptural slinger
54D Outside shot?
55D She's name-checked in Wonder's Ellington tribute
58D Suit tag trio
59D Apt rhyme for "Hey!"

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