NYT Crossword Today's Hints and Answer
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Friday, December 5, 2025
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NYT Crossword Answers for 5 December 2025
Across
1. Home to Kotoka International Airport
GHANA
6. Many a wearer of a long robe called a thawb
SAUDI
11. Can't-miss purchases?
SEASONTICKETS
14. Words of caution
DONTPOKETHEBEAR
16. Threshold
EVE
17. Ties up
ENLACES
18. Coastal waterway
RIA
19. Up
RISEN
21. Subject of the Bouguereau painting "The Abduction of Psyche"
EROS
22. Colombian city of 2+ million
CALI
23. Dutch artist Jan van der ___
MEER
24. Curtail
STEM
25. Stick in an orchestra
BATON
26. Spot likely to smear
ATTACKAD
28. They aren't party people
LONERS
29. Cut, as with a box cutter
SLIT
30. "Fun-size"
MINI
31. Film with the tagline "Someone has taken their love for scary movies one step too far"
SCREAM
34. Words of retaliation
TAKETHAT
38. Word with fire or false
ALARM
39. Hotel listing
RATE
40. One and the other
BOTH
41. Big name in chip production
LAYS
42. Bundle
PILE
43. Sauce whose name derives from the Italian word for "crush"
PESTO
44. Refuge
ARK
45. Where much of "Brokeback Mountain" was filmed
ALBERTA
47. It's perfect
TEN
48. "Might as well give it a shot ..."
HEREGOESNOTHING
51. Age at which you just learned something you should have realized before, facetiously
TODAYYEARSOLD
52. Something blocked by censors
CURSE
53. 1944 Pacific battle site
LEYTE
Down
1. What clones share
GENESET
2. It might be on a rack
HAT
3. Ski town that shares its name with a tree
ASPEN
4. "High" time
NOON
5. Image that's just over a foot, informally
ANKLETAT
6. "Arrested Development," e.g.
SITCOM
7. Pines
ACHES
8. Relatives of banjoleles
UKES
9. Nebraska senator Fischer
DEB
10. Repeat
ITERATE
11. Council, in Russian
SOVIET
12. Got misty
TEARED
13. Sea shanty singer
SAILOR
14. Skin layer with hair follicles
DERMA
15. Show stoppers, sometimes
RAINS
20. Items on many a back-to-school supply list
ERASERS
22. "Is this possible?!?"
CANITBE
24. Take a little off the top
SKIM
25. Dog treat
BONE
27. Silent sort
CLAM
28. Fancy
LIKE
30. Kind of instinct
MATERNAL
31. Mohamed ___, Egyptian soccer star
SALAH
32. Shade of red
CLARET
33. Big name in fast food
RAYKROC
34. "Honor Thy Father" writer, 1971
TALESE
35. Argumentative
HOSTILE
36. Get to
ATTEND
37. Minimal coverage provider?
THONG
39. Hearty steakhouse serving
RIBEYE
42. Tricks
PLOYS
43. Unwitting mark
PATSY
45. Thickening agent found in many vegan recipes
AGAR
46. Raced
TORE
49. Dot follower in academia
EDU
50. Spicy
HOT
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