Monday NYT Across Solutions December 08, 2025 - Every Horizontal Clue Decoded with Hints
Quick Summary: Today's NYT Crossword has 39 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 08, 2025 |
| Day of Week | Monday |
| Total Across Clues | 39 clues |
| Direction | Horizontal (Left to Right) |
| Difficulty | Challenging |
All Across Clues - Complete List
Here are all 39 Across clues for today's puzzle. These go horizontally from left to right.
| Number | Clue |
|---|---|
| 1 Across | 1. Sir's counterpart |
| 2 Across | 6. Folded Mexican snack |
| 3 Across | 10. Young chap |
| 4 Across | 13. "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley |
| 5 Across | 14. Sean of "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 6 Across | 16. Chicken ___ king |
| 7 Across | 17. Wyoming skiing mecca |
| 8 Across | 19. Female pig |
| 9 Across | 20. Gold, in Spanish |
| 10 Across | 21. Dessert with icing |
| 11 Across | 22. Motor City hoopster |
| 12 Across | 24. Run out of clothes? |
| 13 Across | 26. Like an envelope that's ready to be sent |
| 14 Across | 28. ___ Major (constellation) |
| 15 Across | 30. "Enola Holmes" actress ___ Bobby Brown |
| 16 Across | 32. Bicycle shorts material |
| 17 Across | 35. Computer image |
| 18 Across | 37. ID checkers at an airport |
| 19 Across | 39. Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhood |
| 20 Across | 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 |
| 21 Across | 41. "Get outta here!" |
| 22 Across | 42. Artificial colorant |
| 23 Across | 43. Half of a train track |
| 24 Across | 44. "That's boring!" |
| 25 Across | 45. Starting point |
| 26 Across | 48. Grand ___ (achievement in baseball or tennis) |
| 27 Across | 50. Hardest to find |
| 28 Across | 52. "Let me clarify ..." |
| 29 Across | 56. Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there" |
| 30 Across | 58. Top poker cards |
| 31 Across | 60. Monarch at Versailles |
| 32 Across | 61. Golfer's target ... or prize |
| 33 Across | 62. End successfully |
| 34 Across | 65. Comedian Wong |
| 35 Across | 66. Medieval stringed instruments |
| 36 Across | 67. "___, meenie, miney, mo" |
| 37 Across | 68. Crunchy sandwich, for short |
| 38 Across | 69. Camp shelter |
| 39 Across | 70. Religious ceremonies |
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. Sir's counterpart"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: M___M
- Similar words: brothel keeper, gentlewoman
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a woman of refinement
- This is Across clue number 1
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MADAM
2 Across: "6. Folded Mexican snack"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: T__O
- Similar words: greaser, wetback
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 2
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TACO
3 Across: "10. Young chap"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'D'
- Similar words: bloke, chap
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a boy or man
- This is Across clue number 3
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LAD
4 Across: "13. "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: O___A
- Similar words: opera house
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 4
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
OPERA
5 Across: "14. Sean of "The Lord of the Rings""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: A___N
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 5
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ASTIN
6 Across: "16. Chicken ___ king"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'A'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- This is Across clue number 6
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ALA
7 Across: "17. Wyoming skiing mecca"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 11 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'J' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: J_________E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 7
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
JACKSONHOLE
8 Across: "19. Female pig"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'W'
- Similar words: sow in, inseminate
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an adult female hog
- This is Across clue number 8
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SOW
9 Across: "20. Gold, in Spanish"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'O'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 9
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ORO
10 Across: "21. Dessert with icing"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: C__E
- Similar words: bar, coat
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- This is Across clue number 10
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CAKE
11 Across: "22. Motor City hoopster"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'P' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: P____N
- Similar words: plunger, Walter Piston
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976)
- This is Across clue number 11
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
PISTON
12 Across: "24. Run out of clothes?"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'K'
- Word pattern: S____K
- Similar words: bar, stripe
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an unbroken series of events
- This is Across clue number 12
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
STREAK
13 Across: "26. Like an envelope that's ready to be sent"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'D'
- Word pattern: S____D
- Similar words: seal, varnish
- Opposite of: unseal
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: make tight; secure against leakage
- This is Across clue number 13
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SEALED
14 Across: "28. ___ Major (constellation)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'U' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: U__A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 14
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
URSA
15 Across: "30. "Enola Holmes" actress ___ Bobby Brown"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'M' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: M____E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 15
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
MILLIE
16 Across: "32. Bicycle shorts material"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'A'
- Word pattern: L___A
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 16
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LYCRA
17 Across: "35. Computer image"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: S__N
- Similar words: glance over, skim
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 17
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SCAN
18 Across: "37. ID checkers at an airport"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'A'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 18
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TSA
19 Across: "39. Gallery-filled Big Apple neighborhood"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'O'
- Word pattern: S__O
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 19
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SOHO
20 Across: "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"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: D___T
- Similar words: finger, dactyl
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 20
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
DIGIT
21 Across: "41. "Get outta here!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: S__T
- Similar words: escape, run away
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 21
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SCAT
22 Across: "42. Artificial colorant"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'D' and ends with 'E'
- Similar words: dyestuff
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 22
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
DYE
23 Across: "43. Half of a train track"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: R__L
- Similar words: runway, inveigh
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- This is Across clue number 23
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RAIL
24 Across: "44. "That's boring!""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'H' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: H___M
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 24
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
HOHUM
25 Across: "45. Starting point"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'O' and ends with 'N'
- Word pattern: O____N
- Similar words: origination, parentage
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: the place where something begins
- This is Across clue number 25
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ORIGIN
26 Across: "48. Grand ___ (achievement in baseball or tennis)"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'M'
- Word pattern: S__M
- Similar words: mosh, gibe
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- This is Across clue number 26
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SLAM
27 Across: "50. Hardest to find"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: R____T
- Similar words: uncommon, rarefied
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
- This is Across clue number 27
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RAREST
28 Across: "52. "Let me clarify ...""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'I' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: I____T
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 28
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
IMEANT
29 Across: "56. Gesture suggesting "I see what you did there""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 6 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'S' and ends with 'D'
- Word pattern: S____D
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 29
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
SLYNOD
30 Across: "58. Top poker cards"
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: 1, genius
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 30
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ACES
31 Across: "60. Monarch at Versailles"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'I'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: (corporate finance) the amount
- This is Across clue number 31
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ROI
32 Across: "61. Golfer's target ... or prize"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'C' and ends with 'P'
- Similar words: cupful, transfuse
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 32
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
CUP
33 Across: "62. End successfully"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 11 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'W' and ends with 'L'
- Word pattern: W_________L
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 33
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
WORKOUTWELL
34 Across: "65. Comedian Wong"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'A' and ends with 'I'
- Similar words: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 34
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
ALI
35 Across: "66. Medieval stringed instruments"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'L' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: L___S
- Similar words: luting, lute
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 35
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
LUTES
36 Across: "67. "___, meenie, miney, mo""
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'E' and ends with 'E'
- Word pattern: E___E
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 36
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
EENIE
37 Across: "68. Crunchy sandwich, for short"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 3 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'B' and ends with 'T'
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 37
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
BLT
38 Across: "69. Camp shelter"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 4 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'T' and ends with 'T'
- Word pattern: T__T
- Similar words: camp, encamp
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- This is Across clue number 38
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
TENT
39 Across: "70. Religious ceremonies"
Helpful hints for this Across clue:
- This word has 5 letters going left to right
- It starts with 'R' and ends with 'S'
- Word pattern: R___S
- Similar words: ritual, religious rite
- This is an abbreviation or acronym
- Definition: an established ceremony prescribed by a religion
- This is Across clue number 39
Answer: Click to reveal the Across answer
RITES
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 39 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.
