All NYT Across Clues December 09, 2025 - 37 Horizontal Answers with Hints
Quick Summary: Today's NYT Crossword has 37 Across clues. We have all the horizontal answers plus helpful hints to make solving easier!
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About Today's Across Clues
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Date | December 09, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Tuesday |
| Total Across Clues | 37 clues |
| Direction | Horizontal (Left to Right) |
| Difficulty | Easy |
All Across Clues - Complete List
Here are all 37 Across clues for today's puzzle. These go horizontally from left to right.
| Number | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 Across | 1. Goes on to say |
| 2 Across | 5. San Diego baseballer |
| 3 Across | 10. Livens (up) |
| 4 Across | 14. Termites, for an aardwolf |
| 5 Across | 15. Cup-shaped flower |
| 6 Across | 16. Give off |
| 7 Across | 17. "Judging from the information available to me ..." |
| 8 Across | 20. Unadulterated |
| 9 Across | 21. San Francisco-to-Santa Cruz dir. |
| 10 Across | 22. Propellers of a shell |
| 11 Across | 23. "These are merely my spur-of-the-moment suggestions ..." |
| 12 Across | 27. Gobbled up |
| 13 Across | 28. Abu Dhabi's country, for short |
| 14 Across | 29. Notable time period |
| 15 Across | 30. Gossip, in slang |
| 16 Across | 31. Accurse |
| 17 Across | 33. 33-Down, across the Atlantic |
| 18 Across | 34. "Oh, ___!" (hit Broadway farce about Mrs. Lincoln) |
| 19 Across | 35. Verdant privacy features ... or a punny description of the four longest answers in this puzzle |
| 20 Across | 38. Singer/actress Lady ___ |
| 21 Across | 41. Historical |
| 22 Across | 42. Got a good reaction, as a joke |
| 23 Across | 46. Equal: Prefix |
| 24 Across | 47. Swim-bike-run race, for short |
| 25 Across | 48. Sound from someone sitting down at the end of a long day |
| 26 Across | 49. Game with Skip and Reverse cards |
| 27 Across | 50. "Here's my two cents, which might not amount to much ..." |
| 28 Across | 54. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a ___" (old maxim) |
| 29 Across | 55. Pre-digital TV screen tech |
| 30 Across | 56. Not close by |
| 31 Across | 57. "Feel free to dismiss this idea — however ..." |
| 32 Across | 61. Survey |
| 33 Across | 62. Temporary tattoo dye |
| 34 Across | 63. "Frozen" character who sings "Let It Go" |
| 35 Across | 64. Influence |
| 36 Across | 65. Burros |
| 37 Across | 66. Pair in a water polo pool |
Detailed Hints and Answers for All Across Clues
Need help? Here are comprehensive hints and answers for each Across clue. Also check these helpful guides:
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Complete Across Solutions:
1 Across: "1. Goes on to say"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: A__S
- Similar words: append, impart
- Opposite of: take away
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ADDS
2 Across: "5. San Diego baseballer"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: P___E
- Similar words: Holy Joe, sky pilot
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a chaplain in one of the military services
- This is Across clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
PADRE
3 Across: "10. Livens (up)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: P__S
- Similar words: ginger, pep
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: liveliness and energy
- This is Across clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
PEPS
4 Across: "14. Termites, for an aardwolf"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: D__T
- Similar words: dieting
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a prescribed selection of foods
- This is Across clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
DIET
5 Across: "15. Cup-shaped flower"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'P'
- Word pattern: T___P
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TULIP
6 Across: "16. Give off"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: E__T
- Similar words: give off, let out
- Opposite of: absorb
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: expel (gases or odors)
- This is Across clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EMIT
7 Across: "17. "Judging from the information available to me ...""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 15 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: A_____________L
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ASFARASICANTELL
8 Across: "20. Unadulterated"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: P__E
- Similar words: complete, arrant
- Opposite of: impure
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: free of extraneous elements of any kind
- This is Across clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
PURE
9 Across: "21. San Francisco-to-Santa Cruz dir."
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: south southeast, sou'-sou'-east
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the compass point midway between south and southeast
- This is Across clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SSE
10 Across: "22. Propellers of a shell"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: O__S
- Similar words: oar
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an implement used to propel or steer a boat
- This is Across clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OARS
11 Across: "23. "These are merely my spur-of-the-moment suggestions ...""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 15 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'J' and ends with 'G'
- Word pattern: J_____________G
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
JUSTSPITBALLING
12 Across: "27. Gobbled up"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: feed, consume
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- This is Across clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ATE
13 Across: "28. Abu Dhabi's country, for short"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'U' and ends with 'E'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
UAE
14 Across: "29. Notable time period"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'A'
- Similar words: geological era, epoch
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ERA
15 Across: "30. Gossip, in slang"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'A'
- Similar words: afternoon tea, tea leaf
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- This is Across clue number 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TEA
16 Across: "31. Accurse"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: B____N
- Similar words: anathemize, maledict
- Opposite of: bless
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- This is Across clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BEDAMN
17 Across: "33. 33-Down, across the Atlantic"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'Z' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: izzard, ezed
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet
- This is Across clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ZEE
18 Across: "34. "Oh, ___!" (hit Broadway farce about Mrs. Lincoln)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: M__Y
- Similar words: Blessed Virgin, The Virgin
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MARY
19 Across: "35. Verdant privacy features ... or a punny description of the four longest answers in this puzzle"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 9 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: H_______S
- Similar words: hedge, hedgerow
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- This is Across clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HEDGEROWS
20 Across: "38. Singer/actress Lady ___"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'G' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: G__A
- Similar words: crazy, dotty
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: mentally or physically infirm with age
- This is Across clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
GAGA
21 Across: "41. Historical"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'D'
- Similar words: onetime, one-time
- Opposite of: new
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- This is Across clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OLD
22 Across: "42. Got a good reaction, as a joke"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'D'
- Word pattern: L____D
- Similar words: shore, bring
- Opposite of: landless
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: reach or come to rest
- This is Across clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LANDED
23 Across: "46. Equal: Prefix"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'I' and ends with 'O'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ISO
24 Across: "47. Swim-bike-run race, for short"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'I'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TRI
25 Across: "48. Sound from someone sitting down at the end of a long day"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'H'
- Similar words: ooh
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- This is Across clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AAH
26 Across: "49. Game with Skip and Reverse cards"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'U' and ends with 'O'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
UNO
27 Across: "50. "Here's my two cents, which might not amount to much ...""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 15 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'F' and ends with 'H'
- Word pattern: F_____________H
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
FORWHATITSWORTH
28 Across: "54. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a ___" (old maxim)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'F' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: F__E
- Similar words: send away, fervor
- Opposite of: hire
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the event of something burning (often destructive)
- This is Across clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
FIRE
29 Across: "55. Pre-digital TV screen tech"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'T'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CRT
30 Across: "56. Not close by"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'R'
- Word pattern: A__R
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
- This is Across clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
AFAR
31 Across: "57. "Feel free to dismiss this idea — however ...""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 15 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: O_____________T
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ONLYATHOUGHTBUT
32 Across: "61. Survey"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: P__L
- Similar words: opinion poll, pollard
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
POLL
33 Across: "62. Temporary tattoo dye"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: H___A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a reddish brown dye used especially on hair
- This is Across clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HENNA
34 Across: "63. "Frozen" character who sings "Let It Go""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: E__A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ELSA
35 Across: "64. Influence"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'Y'
- Word pattern: S__Y
- Similar words: carry, shake
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: controlling influence
- This is Across clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SWAY
36 Across: "65. Burros"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: A___S
- Similar words: nookie, behind
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- This is Across clue number 36
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ASSES
37 Across: "66. Pair in a water polo pool"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'N' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: N__S
- Similar words: meshing, clear
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 37
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
NETS
Expert Strategies for Solving Across Clues
Master the horizontal clues with these professional tips:
Why Start with Across Clues?
- Across clues often provide more letter intersections
- Reading left to right feels more natural
- Many common phrases run horizontally
- Across answers often help solve Down clues
Across Clue Patterns to Recognize
- Fill-in-the-blank clues: These are usually the easiest Across entries
- Common phrases: Many idioms run horizontally
- Abbreviations: Look for clues with "Abbr." or shortened forms
- Plural indicators: Words ending in 'S' are common in Across
- Pop culture references: Names and titles often appear horizontally
Time-Saving Across Techniques
| Technique | How It Helps |
|---|---|
| Scan all Across first | Get a mental map of the horizontal flow |
| Fill short Across words | 3-4 letter words are often articles or prepositions |
| Use crossing letters | Down letters help confirm Across answers |
| Look for themes | Related Across answers often share a theme |
Frequently Asked Questions About Across Clues
What are Across clues in crossword puzzles?
Across clues are the horizontal entries in a crossword puzzle that read from left to right. They're numbered and correspond to specific rows in the grid.
Should I solve Across or Down clues first?
Many solvers prefer starting with Across clues because reading left-to-right feels more natural. However, the best approach is to solve the clues you find easiest first, regardless of direction.
How many Across clues are in today's puzzle?
Today's NYT crossword has 37 Across clues.
Are Across clues easier than Down clues?
Neither direction is inherently easier. The difficulty depends on the specific clues and your knowledge. However, Across clues often contain more common phrases and expressions.
How do Across clues interact with Down clues?
Across and Down clues intersect at various points in the grid. Solving one can provide letters that help solve the other, making the puzzle easier as you progress.
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