GAME RECTANGLES
Across
- Historical periods
- Unable to move
- Small metric weight
- Rectangle with Park Place and Chance
- Cube on a 50 Across
- Row of stitches
- Paths on a rural road
- Dough-rising ingredient
- Heavyweight match rectangle
- Guitar ancestor
- Dog Chow alternative
- "You __ kidding!"
- British prep school
- Actress Zellweger
- Spanish bull
- Pulls from behind
- Chianti, to Italians
- Simple to do
- Electric car brand
- Caesar's rebuke
- Hands-and-feet floor game rectangle
- Woo with a song
- Horse sound
- Attila's followers
- Once around a racetrack
- Super Bowl rectangle
- Rustic hotel
- "Go away!"
- Most factual
- Actor Guinness
- Public school support grp.
- Great joy
- Rare blood category
- Become fatigued
- Light brown
Down
- __ so (nevertheless)
- Princess of Wales, in headlines
- Dressed (in)
- West Point sch.
- Seagull cousin
- Harder to climb
- Me, __ and I
- With no guarantee
- Not yet cooked
- Obtain
- Searched for
- Prefix for freeze
- Formal ceremony
- Watch closely
- Egg-and-cheese order
- Sort of ski lift
- Was dressed in
- Plow-pulling beasts
- Bit of poetry
- Grain storage structure
- Thing in a lot's spot
- Load, as cargo
- Change for a twenty
- Noncommercial audio network
- Sticky stuff
- Characteristic
- Major airports
- "I'll pass!"
- Swine food
- Carry wearily
- Italian car
- Nothing but
- Latish lunch hr.
- State-run numbers game
- River mouth formation
- Burn just a bit
- Baby-sit
- Corp. leader
- Is under the weather
- Trampoline spring sound
- Slow tempo
- Sandwich bread
- Internet auctioneer
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Wednesday, December 10, 2025 is titled “GAME RECTANGLES” and was constructed by Mark McClain. The puzzle features 78 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.
The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.