Top poker cards Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Top poker cards crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword December 8, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

TOP (verb)
1. be the culminating event
2. pass by, over, or under without making contact
TOP (noun)
1. the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
2. a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
TOP (adjective)
1. situated at the top or highest position
POKER (noun)
1. fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
2. any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

EVENT
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Hint 3: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (12/8/2025) Answers

Across

1. Sir's counterpart

6. Folded Mexican snack

10. Young chap

13. "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley

14. Sean of "The Lord of the Rings"

16. Chicken __ king

17. Wyoming skiing mecca

19. Female pig

20. Gold in Spanish

21. Dessert with icing

22. Motor City hoopster

24. Run out of clothes?

26. Like an envelope that's ready to be sent

28. ___ Major (constellation)

30. "Enola Holmes" actress ___ Bobby Brown

32. Bicycle shorts material

35. Computer image

37. ID checkers at an airport

39. Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhood

40. Finger or toe … or, when read as two words, what you can do to the ends of 17- and 62-Across and 10- and 34-Down

41. Get outta here!

42. Artificial colorant

43. Half of a train track

44. "That's boring"

45. Starting point

48. Grand ___ (achievement in baseball or tennis)

50. Hardest to find

52. Let me clarify

56. Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there"

60. Monarch at Versailles

61. Golfer's target ... or prize

62. End successfully

65. Comedian Wong

66. Medieval stringed instruments

67. "___, meenie, miney, mo"

68. Crunchy sandwich, for short

69. Camp shelter

70. Religious ceremonies

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Down

1. Magic charms

2. Not together

3. Interior design

4. Genesis boat

5. The eyes may have it

6. Scuba gear

7. Remnants of a volcanic spew

8. Corp. exec overseeing engineers, say

9. Stuff on an artist's palette

10. Eleventh-hour

11. Potatoes, in Indian cooking

12. From ___ to dusk

15. Actor Sam of "Jurassic Park"

18. Acorn droppers

23. Salt, in Paris

25. Money across the Atlantic

27. Messages on which you might be cc'd

29. Iraqis and Iranians

31. Biblical brother of Jacob

32. Psychedelic tab

33. Toy on a string that's not a kite

34. Center of a stone fruit

36. Film special effects, for short

38. After-hours source of $$$

40. Lost moisture

41. Nonspecific amount

44. Pet that stores food in cheek pouches

46. Author Fleming

47. What empty stomachs do

49. In __ of

51. No longer available

53. There ___ enough hours in the day!

54. 'That's the truth!'

55. Mosaic pieces

56. Covering over a wound

57. Pause in the action

59. "It's gonna ___ you!"

63. Hwy

64. Early Chinese dynasty

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