Newsday Crossword December 21 2025 Answers (12/21/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for December 21 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword December 21, 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 21, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 12/21/25, 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 Minor anomaly
5A Out-of-focus photo
9A Botanical anchors
14A Out of bed
19A Nevada resort
20A Ill-at-__ (edgy)
21A It's west of Montana
22A Rueful emotion
23A Former Bay Area American Leaguers (H)
25A College club jewelry (E)
27A 450, for Nero
28A HMO members
29A Ark groups
31A Budgetary bigwig, for short
32A Canonized femme: Abbr.
33A Stage whispers
35A + and -
36A Prom attendee
37A Hem and __
38A Eats elegantly
39A Kerri of Olympics gymnastic fame
40A Reduce, as expenses
41A Slightest trace
42A Certain pod legume (R)
44A Train to O'Hare (M)
46A Sweet winter drinks
47A Fannie __ mortgages
48A Aussie hoppers
49A Discard
52A Mideast rice serving
54A Prepares, as pizza dough
58A Wide footwear letters
59A ABA member
60A Largely gone Asian lake
62A Sharply sloped
63A Grandma
65A Greet another Marine (G or R)
68A Prairie storehouse
69A Locket shapes
71A More filled with fluffy feathers
72A Color TV pioneer
74A Frequently, poetically
75A Pleasant change
77A Streetcar director
78A What domed stadiums prevent
80A Ominous
82A __ Faire (role-playing event)
83A Belittle
84A Appeal for assistance (M)
88A Eminent LBJ biographer (B)
92A Stage show-offs
93A Box tops
94A Cum grano __ (with a grain of you-know-what)
95A All too fallible
96A NFL West team
97A Novelist Buchanan
98A Michelangelo subject
99A Moving movie
100A DMV ID
101A Neighbor of Homer
102A Big-eyed baby bird
103A 63-Across' daughter
104A PC "quit" key
105A Breakfast beverage (K)
108A What the last words of eight long Across answers all do
111A Type of govt. bond
112A Made mention of
113A Reminiscent of
114A Alpine capital
115A CD issuer
116A Dresser features
117A Blissful place
118A Admin. __
1D Drapery fabric
2D Ushers to a seat
3D Slightest idea
4D Office seeker, for short
5D "Deep knee" exercises
6D Little boys
7D Most populous NATO member
8D Inhales and exhales
9D On the increase
10D Nasal stimuli
11D Canoe implements
12D Even if, in verse
13D Wizard
14D __ Martin (British auto)
15D Timid
16D Footwear that clicks
17D Take after
18D Contract extension
24D It's north of Des Moines
26D "Doing all right"
30D Spanish water
34D AC__ (car parts brand)
35D Mid-March VIP
36D Letter after sigma
39D Scold loudly
40D Likable person
41D Maps within maps
43D Traditional bagpipers
44D Quill descendant
45D Atoms with charges
47D Southeast Florida citizen
49D Choir guy
50D Hurl hard
51D Of kidneys
52D Knotty nosh
53D Iron: Fr.
55D Vowel sequence
56D Dutch pottery
57D Glimpses
60D Not beyond
61D Triangular houses
64D Makes straight
66D Loud laugh
67D More frosty
70D Eastern European
73D Detested thing
76D Shortstop, for instance
78D Persist at an auction
79D Perfectly timed
81D Cruise ship's primary level
83D Fictional physician with furry friends
84D Alpine abodes
85D __ Islands (where Guam is)
86D Pi preceder
87D Smartphone ancestor
88D High praise
89D Current measures
90D Bold poker participants
91D Penny phrase
94D Tossed dishes
97D German winged being
98D Inept person
99D Alcott title characters
102D Comics bulldog
103D Recording device
106D Inc. cousin
107D Yang's partner
109D Disposed (of)
110D Sched. placeholder

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