The Atlantic Crossword December 28 2025 Answers (12/28/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's Atlantic Crossword puzzle for December 28 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our Atlantic Crossword December 28, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Atlantic Crossword December 28, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Atlantic Crossword on 12/28/25, 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 Opposite of a pan
11A "In memoriam" piece, for short
15A Like someone who's engaged, at a singles bar
16A Minor league
17A Hard-to-quantify emotional condition, for a group
18A Car for a star, maybe
19A Sharp-tipped tools
20A Place where workers expose veins
21A Tons
22A Have second thoughts, maybe
23A Herb that has a stinging variety
24A Nice way to denounce somebody?
28A Cirque du ___
29A Some green fundraisers?
30A Quick refresher
32A Hidden ___ (if-you-know-you-know spots)
33A Certain Anabaptist group
35A Pokémon that evolves into Kadabra
36A Chocolatier, say?
38A Consume crudités, for example
40A Drawing Hands artist
41A Some red flags
42A Items coveted in The Rainbow Fish
43A On-line bait?
44A Steel, e.g.
45A Mini-___ (convenience store)
46A Food celebrated at a museum in Austin, Minnesota
50A Garlands hung throughout the year
51A "It pains me to do this, but ..."
53A Initialism for a Black dialect
54A Stays drawn
55A ___ Scott v. Sandford
56A Finish line of the rat race, maybe
1D Moreno who was awarded a 2018 Peabody
2D Afresh
3D Saltimbocca protein
4D Common canopy liners
5D Thing that's salted for some margaritas
6D Rubs the right way?
7D Mannish
8D Morgan Stanley or Barclays: abbr.
9D Magazine found in a best-seller list?
10D Itty-bitty
11D Completely destroy
12D Source of some undercover support?
13D "One of you squealed!"
14D More than that?
21D Soccer legend whose jersey number was once projected on Christ the Redeemer
22D Ski ___
23D "Boy, do I have a story for you!"
24D Legacy image files: abbr.
25D Question to which "Crystal" might be a reply
26D Fills up, as a dance floor
27D "That settles that!"
28D "Help Wanted" sign?
30D Playground game that combines spelling and basketball
31D Fitting rhyme for claws
34D Space station that was returned to Earth in 2001
37D Gender-neutral pronoun
39D Constitution or Wisconsin, in D.C.
41D Greeting perfected by debutantes
42D Word before days or dressing
43D Touches down
45D ___ Patel (CEO who attended the 2025 Met Gala with a robotic dog)
46D Headliner, maybe
47D Tennis great Sampras
48D Bonne ___
49D Encounter
51D Star Wars actor Billy ___ Williams
52D Colony resident

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