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NYT Crossword answers for December 28, 2025

NYT Crossword · December 28, 2025 · Every hint stays hidden until you tap it

All 140 clues from the Sunday NYT Crossword (21 by 21), with every answer hidden until you want it. Check a length or a first letter before you reveal a whole answer.

Today's title: Off Broadway Musicals

Across clues and answer lengths
Across first letters
  • 1 starts with P
  • 6 starts with S
  • 12 starts with L
  • 16 starts with T
  • 19 starts with A
  • 20 starts with W
  • 21 starts with E
  • 22 starts with W
  • 23 starts with R
  • 25 starts with N
  • 27 starts with K
  • 28 starts with U
  • 29 starts with A
  • 31 starts with P
  • 32 starts with S
  • 34 starts with L
  • 36 starts with E
  • 38 starts with G
  • 41 starts with E
  • 43 starts with E
  • 44 starts with F
  • 47 starts with M
  • 50 starts with A
  • 51 starts with A
  • 53 starts with B
  • 54 starts with M
  • 55 starts with T
  • 56 starts with P
  • 58 starts with E
  • 60 starts with A
  • 61 starts with P
  • 62 starts with S
  • 64 starts with E
  • 67 starts with L
  • 69 starts with S
  • 70 starts with R
  • 72 starts with S
  • 73 starts with P
  • 74 starts with B
  • 75 starts with R
  • 76 starts with B
  • 78 starts with S
  • 80 starts with P
  • 81 starts with C
  • 84 starts with W
  • 86 starts with S
  • 87 starts with G
  • 88 starts with P
  • 91 starts with O
  • 93 starts with A
  • 94 starts with E
  • 95 starts with T
  • 96 starts with S
  • 99 starts with G
  • 101 starts with N
  • 104 starts with P
  • 105 starts with G
  • 106 starts with C
  • 109 starts with R
  • 111 starts with E
  • 113 starts with A
  • 116 starts with M
  • 117 starts with E
  • 118 starts with R
  • 119 starts with A
  • 120 starts with U
  • 121 starts with L
  • 122 starts with S
  • 123 starts with Y
Show the across answers
  • 1 Across: Poet with a 1982 posthumous Pulitzer PLATH
  • 6 Across: S.L.R. insert since the early 2000s SDCARD
  • 12 Across: Baths in Bath LAVS
  • 16 Across: Comedian Notaro TIG
  • 19 Across: Host Tyler of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" AISHA
  • 20 Across: One sporting an article of apparel WEARER
  • 21 Across: Sign in a theater EXIT
  • 22 Across: Droll WRY
  • 23 Across: Rock of Ages ROSETTASTONE
  • 25 Across: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying NEPOTISM
  • 27 Across: Prop for a proposal KNEE
  • 28 Across: College credit hours UNITS
  • 29 Across: Far from fore AFT
  • 31 Across: Starting section PARTA
  • 32 Across: Fab Four drummer STARR
  • 34 Across: "I can handle that for you" LETME
  • 36 Across: Swallow something hook, line and sinker EATITUP
  • 38 Across: Subject of some modern maps GENOME
  • 41 Across: Boots out EJECTS
  • 43 Across: Ending with Butler or Bard EDU
  • 44 Across: A Class Act FIELDTRIP
  • 47 Across: A Strange Loop MOBIUSSTRIP
  • 50 Across: Played a part ACTED
  • 51 Across: Baldwin of "30 Rock" ALEC
  • 53 Across: Ran in the rain, perhaps BLED
  • 54 Across: Brig pair MASTS
  • 55 Across: New Mexico skiing locale TAOS
  • 56 Across: Full legislative assembly PLENUM
  • 58 Across: Personification of darkness, in Greek myth EREBUS
  • 60 Across: Shapiro of public radio ARI
  • 61 Across: Buds PALS
  • 62 Across: Chips go-with SALSA
  • 64 Across: Straight up ERECT
  • 67 Across: A Little Night Music LULLABY
  • 69 Across: Rent SPLIT
  • 70 Across: A Chorus Line REFRAIN
  • 72 Across: Creatures formed from the fingers of the sea goddess Sedna, in Inuit myth SEALS
  • 73 Across: Personal histories PASTS
  • 74 Across: Automatons, informally BOTS
  • 75 Across: Cell letters RNA
  • 76 Across: "___ down the hatches!" BATTEN
  • 78 Across: Nursery rhyme couple SPRATS
  • 80 Across: Cribbage markers PEGS
  • 81 Across: Sine's reciprocal, in trig COSEC
  • 84 Across: Bit of power WATT
  • 86 Across: Japanese noodle SOBA
  • 87 Across: Wave to, say GREET
  • 88 Across: The Producers PROLETARIAT
  • 91 Across: Into the Woods OUTDOORSY
  • 93 Across: ___ Lingus AER
  • 94 Across: Intertwine ENLACE
  • 95 Across: Halloween haul TREATS
  • 96 Across: In tears SOBBING
  • 99 Across: Eschew the high road, say GOLOW
  • 101 Across: ___ Dame NOTRE
  • 104 Across: Repeatedly hit hard POUND
  • 105 Across: Dollop GOB
  • 106 Across: Pop group COLAS
  • 109 Across: Sitar great Shankar RAVI
  • 111 Across: The Wiz EINSTEIN
  • 113 Across: Mean Girls AVERAGEJANES
  • 116 Across: Chess pieces MEN
  • 117 Across: Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End" ERMA
  • 118 Across: File often installed with computer programs README
  • 119 Across: Do penance ATONE
  • 120 Across: Apply USE
  • 121 Across: Hurdle for a J.D.-to-be LSAT
  • 122 Across: Became aware of SENSED
  • 123 Across: "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker YENTE
Down clues and answer lengths
Down first letters
  • 1 starts with P
  • 2 starts with L
  • 3 starts with A
  • 4 starts with T
  • 5 starts with H
  • 6 starts with S
  • 7 starts with D
  • 8 starts with C
  • 9 starts with A
  • 10 starts with R
  • 11 starts with D
  • 12 starts with L
  • 13 starts with A
  • 14 starts with V
  • 15 starts with S
  • 16 starts with T
  • 17 starts with I
  • 18 starts with G
  • 24 starts with T
  • 26 starts with T
  • 30 starts with F
  • 33 starts with R
  • 35 starts with T
  • 36 starts with E
  • 37 starts with P
  • 39 starts with O
  • 40 starts with M
  • 42 starts with C
  • 44 starts with F
  • 45 starts with I
  • 46 starts with E
  • 48 starts with S
  • 49 starts with T
  • 52 starts with C
  • 56 starts with P
  • 57 starts with M
  • 59 starts with B
  • 61 starts with P
  • 63 starts with L
  • 65 starts with C
  • 66 starts with T
  • 68 starts with L
  • 69 starts with S
  • 70 starts with R
  • 71 starts with N
  • 73 starts with P
  • 74 starts with B
  • 77 starts with T
  • 79 starts with R
  • 80 starts with P
  • 81 starts with C
  • 82 starts with O
  • 83 starts with S
  • 85 starts with T
  • 87 starts with G
  • 89 starts with T
  • 90 starts with T
  • 92 starts with D
  • 97 starts with B
  • 98 starts with I
  • 100 starts with O
  • 102 starts with R
  • 103 starts with E
  • 105 starts with G
  • 107 starts with L
  • 108 starts with A
  • 110 starts with I
  • 111 starts with E
  • 112 starts with I
  • 114 starts with V
  • 115 starts with J
Show the down answers
  • 1 Down: Playground area, often PARK
  • 2 Down: Fearsome felines LIONS
  • 3 Down: Plus ASSET
  • 4 Down: "One of These Nights" band THEEAGLES
  • 5 Down: Makeshift tip collector HAT
  • 6 Down: Epitome of graceful beauty SWAN
  • 7 Down: Arnaz of "I Love Lucy" DESI
  • 8 Down: Certain stock holder CATTLEPEN
  • 9 Down: Came about AROSE
  • 10 Down: Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" REN
  • 11 Down: Gig of a lifetime DREAMJOB
  • 12 Down: Advanced LENT
  • 13 Down: Guitar, slangily AXE
  • 14 Down: Front-of-the-line credential VIPPASS
  • 15 Down: Cousin of a mink STOAT
  • 16 Down: Cheep trills? TWITTERS
  • 17 Down: Dodger's comeuppance IRSAUDIT
  • 18 Down: Indoor recess locale GYM
  • 24 Down: Super-excited, in slang TURNT
  • 26 Down: One "T" of TNT TRI
  • 30 Down: Least hale FEEBLEST
  • 33 Down: Foxx of 1970s TV REDD
  • 35 Down: Judge pro ___ TEM
  • 36 Down: Piano pupil's practice piece ETUDE
  • 37 Down: Short boxers, e.g. PUPS
  • 39 Down: How some medicines are taken ORALLY
  • 40 Down: Apt name for a distance runner? MILES
  • 42 Down: Oldsmobile Cutlass model CIERA
  • 44 Down: Like 45-Down's flaw FATAL
  • 45 Down: Mythical figure undone by hubris ICARUS
  • 46 Down: Prima ballerina ETOILE
  • 48 Down: Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak SMURFS
  • 49 Down: Police weapon TASER
  • 52 Down: Transition points CUSPS
  • 56 Down: Blue Ribbon brand PABST
  • 57 Down: Ice cream parlor offerings MALTS
  • 59 Down: Borscht base BEETS
  • 61 Down: Classic theater name PALACE
  • 63 Down: Struggles with sibilant sounds LISPS
  • 65 Down: Law, but not order CAREER
  • 66 Down: Hints TINGES
  • 68 Down: Word with record or union LABEL
  • 69 Down: World capital near the Andean foothills SANTIAGO
  • 70 Down: Give a twist ROTATE
  • 71 Down: Downright mean NASTY
  • 73 Down: Bit of wisdom PEARL
  • 74 Down: Founder of the Mughal Empire BABUR
  • 77 Down: String-plucking sound TWANG
  • 79 Down: Sources in etymology ROOTWORDS
  • 80 Down: Prone PROSTRATE
  • 81 Down: Some summers, in brief CPAS
  • 82 Down: Black-and-white desserts OREOPIES
  • 83 Down: Université with a Pierre and Marie Curie campus SORBONNE
  • 85 Down: Shell filling stations TACOBARS
  • 87 Down: Basic programming command GOTO
  • 89 Down: Chicken pieces TENDERS
  • 90 Down: Part of AT&T: Abbr. TEL
  • 92 Down: Ballet or bourrée, in Bourgogne DANSE
  • 97 Down: Do a diner job BUS
  • 98 Down: Gathering of moles INTEL
  • 100 Down: Setting for Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" OCEAN
  • 102 Down: Continued interminably RANON
  • 103 Down: Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g. EVENT
  • 105 Down: Buzzing nuisance GNAT
  • 107 Down: Glitzy fabric LAME
  • 108 Down: Like some cheese AGED
  • 110 Down: "Gotcha" ISEE
  • 111 Down: Blue-necked bird EMU
  • 112 Down: "___ Believer" IMA
  • 114 Down: Flock formation VEE
  • 115 Down: Blue-winged bird JAY
Show the solved grid
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