NYT Crossword hints and answer for December 7, 2025
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Clues140
Across67
Down73
TitleOriginal Thinkers
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Fancy dos (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCOIFS→
6A
"Count me out" (5)
Starts with I, ends with SIPASS→
11A
Cantankerous captain of fiction (4)
Starts with A, ends with BAHAB→
15A
Lab provisions? (4)
Starts with A, ends with OALPO→
19A
Bit of letter-shaped hardware (5)
Starts with U, ends with TUBOLT→
20A
Attended (5)
Starts with W, ends with TWASAT→
21A
New York university based in Manhattan (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPACE→
22A
A "bear of very little brain" (4)
Starts with P, ends with HPOOH→
23A
Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison? (11)
Starts with P, ends with EPOWERCOUPLE→
25A
John James Audubon? (9)
Starts with B, ends with NBIRDBRAIN→
27A
Victorian-era prescription for melancholy (6)
Starts with S, ends with RSEAAIR→
28A
They'll make it up to you (5)
Starts with L, ends with SLIARS→
30A
Stumble or lurch (4)
Starts with R, ends with LREEL→
31A
Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir. (3)
Starts with N, ends with ENNE→
32A
Dictionary tag: Abbr. (3)
Starts with V, ends with RVAR→
34A
Summer camper's conveyance (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECANOE→
36A
Emmy-winning actor Ray (6)
Starts with L, ends with ALIOTTA→
38A
Samuel Morse? (8)
Starts with C, ends with YCABLEGUY→
43A
Sir Edmund Hillary? (12)
Starts with M, ends with TMOUNTAINGOAT→
46A
Lake that's home to the world's largest freshwater island (5)
Starts with H, ends with NHURON→
47A
Bit of cacao (3)
Starts with N, ends with BNIB→
49A
Come out on top (7)
Starts with P, ends with LPREVAIL→
50A
Suffix with hypn- (4)
Starts with O, ends with COTIC→
51A
Trees commonly confused with birches (6)
Starts with A, ends with SASPENS→
54A
Deposit that might gather interest? (3)
Starts with O, ends with EORE→
55A
Cheeky (5)
Starts with S, ends with YSASSY→
59A
Sir Isaac Newton? (14)
Starts with M, ends with RMOTIONDETECTOR→
62A
Cattle calls (4)
Starts with L, ends with SLOWS→
63A
"Harper Valley ___" (1968 hit) (3)
Starts with P, ends with APTA→
64A
TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby (4)
Starts with M, ends with SMOES→
65A
Shoe covering (6)
Starts with G, ends with RGAITER→
67A
It's often rapped but never spoken (5)
Starts with G, ends with LGAVEL→
68A
Like beds on lazy Saturdays (6)
Starts with U, ends with EUNMADE→
70A
Cuts (back) (5)
Starts with P, ends with SPARES→
71A
Outfit that may have a hood (6)
Starts with O, ends with EONESIE→
73A
Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations (5)
Starts with A, ends with NANNAN→
74A
Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses (6)
Starts with P, ends with DPARTED→
76A
Rain on your wedding day, perhaps (4)
Starts with O, ends with NOMEN→
79A
Oui : non :: ja : ___ (4)
Starts with N, ends with NNEIN→
80A
Gregor Mendel? (14)
Starts with S, ends with RSEEDYCHARACTER→
85A
Gives a thumbs up (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOKS→
86A
Basic tenet of improv (6)
Starts with Y, ends with DYESAND→
87A
Sister to Lex Luthor (4)
Starts with L, ends with ALENA→
88A
With love, musically (7)
Starts with A, ends with OAMOROSO→
91A
A urinal, according to Duchamp (3)
Starts with A, ends with TART→
92A
Remedies (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCURES→
93A
Henry Ford? (12)
Starts with D, ends with EDRIVINGFORCE→
98A
Orville and Wilbur Wright? (8)
Starts with A, ends with SAIRHEADS→
100A
Give a darn, again? (6)
Starts with R, ends with DREMEND→
101A
Food and water, e.g. (5)
Starts with N, ends with SNEEDS→
103A
College located in Cedar Rapids (3)
Starts with C, ends with ECOE→
104A
"That sounds awful!" (3)
Starts with U, ends with HUGH→
105A
Noble title (4)
Starts with E, ends with LEARL→
108A
Bit of letter-shaped hardware (5)
Starts with O, ends with GORING→
110A
Unexpected endings (6)
Starts with T, ends with STWISTS→
115A
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? (9)
Starts with D, ends with MDREAMTEAM→
118A
Galileo Galilei? (11)
Starts with S, ends with SSTARWITNESS→
120A
Genesis (4)
Starts with G, ends with MGERM→
121A
Roof overhang (4)
Starts with E, ends with EEAVE→
122A
Weirdly spooky (5)
Starts with E, ends with EEERIE→
123A
Church staple (5)
Starts with O, ends with NORGAN→
124A
"Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase) (4)
Starts with E, ends with SETES→
125A
Part of a wooden bench (4)
Starts with S, ends with TSLAT→
126A
"In other words," in other words (5)
Starts with I, ends with TIDEST→
127A
Trips around the sun (5)
Starts with Y, ends with SYEARS→
Down
1D
Solos at a party, say (4)
Starts with C, ends with SCUPS→
2D
The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" (4)
Starts with O, ends with EOBOE→
3D
Future birthplace of Captain Kirk (4)
Starts with I, ends with AIOWA→
4D
Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it (4)
Starts with F, ends with AFLEA→
5D
Gone to great lengths (7)
Starts with S, ends with NSTRIVEN→
6D
___ Jima (3)
Starts with I, ends with OIWO→
7D
One of the Fab Four (4)
Starts with P, ends with LPAUL→
8D
Jelly you wouldn't pair with peanut butter (5)
Starts with A, ends with CASPIC→
9D
Arabic greeting and farewell (6)
Starts with S, ends with MSALAAM→
10D
Canned fuel used in making fondue (6)
Starts with S, ends with OSTERNO→
11D
Broadcast to squad cars, in brief (3)
Starts with A, ends with BAPB→
12D
Slim margin of victory (4)
Starts with H, ends with RHAIR→
13D
One chain x one furlong (4)
Starts with A, ends with EACRE→
14D
Amelia ___, maid of children's literature (7)
Starts with B, ends with ABEDELIA→
15D
Its showers bring flowers: Abbr. (3)
Starts with A, ends with RAPR→
16D
Grant a mortgage, say (6)
Starts with L, ends with OLOANTO→
17D
Where one's trip begins (6)
Starts with P, ends with APOINTA→
18D
"Golly, that's cool!" (6)
Starts with O, ends with TOHNEAT→
24D
Rock climber's handhold (4)
Starts with C, ends with GCRAG→
26D
Russian crepes (6)
Starts with B, ends with SBLINIS→
29D
Starter, perhaps (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSOUP→
33D
Is felt strongly (8)
Starts with R, ends with PRUNSDEEP→
35D
Firmly establishes (7)
Starts with E, ends with SENROOTS→
37D
Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople (7)
Starts with O, ends with SOGLALAS→
38D
Bite down hard (5)
Starts with C, ends with PCHOMP→
39D
Musical tool popularized by T-Pain (9)
Starts with A, ends with RAUTOTUNER→
40D
Personification of England, Scotland and Wales (9)
Starts with B, ends with ABRITANNIA→
41D
Sets of points, in math (4)
Starts with L, ends with ILOCI→
42D
"Jeepers creepers!" (5)
Starts with Y, ends with SYIPES→
44D
Pied-à-___ (5)
Starts with T, ends with ETERRE→
45D
Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr. (3)
Starts with A, ends with EAVE→
48D
Word after you or wanna (3)
Starts with B, ends with TBET→
51D
"And giving ___, up the chimney he rose" (4)
Starts with A, ends with DANOD→
52D
Nullify (6)
Starts with N, ends with ENEGATE→
53D
___-cat (7)
Starts with S, ends with YSCAREDY→
56D
Like many Russian housing blocks (9)
Starts with S, ends with ASOVIETERA→
57D
Made more enticing (9)
Starts with S, ends with DSWEETENED→
58D
French fashion inits. (3)
Starts with Y, ends with LYSL→
60D
Oldest independent state in the Arab world (4)
Starts with O, ends with NOMAN→
61D
Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say (6)
Starts with T, ends with ETIEDYE→
66D
Idealist (8)
Starts with R, ends with CROMANTIC→
67D
Actress Rowlands (4)
Starts with G, ends with AGENA→
69D
She-shed's counterpart (7)
Starts with M, ends with EMANCAVE→
70D
Like some nails found in a drugstore (7)
Starts with P, ends with NPRESSON→
72D
Geek (out) (4)
Starts with N, ends with DNERD→
73D
Drone or queen (3)
Starts with A, ends with TANT→
75D
Want from (5)
Starts with A, ends with FASKOF→
76D
Catherine of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind" (5)
Starts with O, ends with AOHARA→
78D
Uncouth (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCRASS→
81D
Farm-share program, for short (3)
Starts with C, ends with ACSA→
84D
Self-proclaimed "Rap God" (6)
Starts with E, ends with MEMINEM→
85D
___ chart (3)
Starts with O, ends with GORG→
89D
Like many couples at theaters (7)
Starts with O, ends with SONDATES→
90D
McFlurry flavor (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOREO→
92D
Something for canines to sink their canines into (7)
Starts with C, ends with YCHEWTOY→
94D
Wish one could take back (6)
Starts with R, ends with TREGRET→
95D
Arrival announcement (6)
Starts with I, ends with EIMHERE→
96D
___ Lannister, "Game of Thrones" queen (6)
Starts with C, ends with ICERSEI→
97D
Like professional publications (6)
Starts with E, ends with DEDITED→
99D
Indian flatbread (4)
Starts with R, ends with IROTI→
106D
Not just theoretical (4)
Starts with R, ends with LREAL→
107D
It runs hot (4)
Starts with L, ends with ALAVA→
109D
Drab color for una casa (4)
Starts with G, ends with SGRIS→
111D
Concerning (4)
Starts with I, ends with EINRE→
112D
Sonic the Hedgehog company (4)
Starts with S, ends with ASEGA→
113D
Feodor I, for one (4)
Starts with T, ends with RTSAR→
114D
Taxpayer IDs (4)
Starts with S, ends with SSSNS→
116D
Morning times, in brief (3)
Starts with A, ends with SAMS→
117D
Encountered (3)
Starts with M, ends with TMET→
119D
Kind of nurse or suit (3)
Starts with W, ends with TWET→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for December 7, 2025?+
140 clues: 67 Across and 73 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Kate Jensen and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Fancy dos (COIFS); "Count me out" (IPASS); Cantankerous captain of fiction (AHAB).
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