Official mandate Crossword Clue

We have the 6-letter answer for Official mandate crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword December 17, 2025 puzzle. Sometimes we all need some help finding the answer!

Official mandate Crossword Answer

→35.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

EDICT

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. decide with authority
2. issue a decree
(noun)
1. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MANDATE (noun)
1. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
2. a document giving an official instruction or command
MANDATE (verb)
1. assign authority to
2. assign under a mandate
OFFICIAL (adjective)
1. conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
2. having official authority or sanction
OFFICIAL (noun)
1. a worker who holds or is invested with an office
2. someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

EDICT
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
RECEDE

More NYT Crossword (12/17/2025) Answers

Across

1. Lock combinations?

6. ___ League

10. Single instruction

14. Enemy W.W. II vessel

15. Turner of old movies

16. Powerful impulse

17. Group of grumps sitting around kvetching?

19. Elmer's nemesis

20. Meeting, casually

21. A smartphone has lots of these

22. Centerpiece of "The Hobbit"

23. Community property pronoun

25. Like barked orders

26. Ali vs. Frazier, e.g.?

34. Genre for GloRilla

36. Fellow fighter

37. Brand once known as "Standard Oil Company of Indiana"

39. Mardi Gras day, in brief

40. Works on a muffler, say

41. Welcome figure on Wall Street, unwelcome figure in a china shop

42. See 50-Down

44. To and ___

45. Welcome sight on a whale-watching cruise?

48. Poindexter

49. TV freebie of a sort

50. Easter Island's country

52. Dark-skinned fruit

55. Pieces of advice

59. Primordial substance

60. Painstakingly explain something ... or a hint to 17-, 26- and 45-Across

62. Takes a tour of

63. Compassionate

64. Terra __

65. Does the math, in a way

66. Pot grower?

67. H, on the N.Y.S.E.

All Answers

Down

1. Tarot suit associated with the element of water

2. Yamaha product

3. What makes a stud become studious?

4. Fully get

5. Hog's home

6. "That's a real shame"

7. Steakhouse order

8. Marchers in sidewalk cracks

9. Howl at the moon

10. Chevy S.U.V.

11. Authentic

12. Ones from platypuses have leathery shells

13. Fly by night ... or by day

18. Compact holder

22. Neighbor of Ont.

24. Red carpet hairstyle, perhaps

25. Jost's longtime "Weekend Update" co-anchor

26. Food you might eat wearing a bib

27. Overplay for the audience

28. Was the bigger person, say

29. Follow, as advice

30. Have faith in

31. Canines, e.g.

32. Mega

33. Big name in chicken or boxing

38. 1990s comedy inspired by "Emma"

40. "Get Smart" bad guys

42. Suffix with beat or neat

43. Throw off

46. Stick in the ground?

47. Just about anything on a string

50. With 42-Across, the Mafia

51. Cultivated, in a way

52. Start a turn in Twister

53. Time to do without

54. Gary's ___ Towne Tavern (rival bar on "Cheers")

56. Minuscule amount

57. Short stroke

58. Batting avg., e.g.

60. Rocksteady relative

61. "___ bin ein Berliner"

All Answers