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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, December 6, 2025 Constructed by Anna Stiga 66 clues
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Across

  1. Chuck, round, etc. 8 ℓ
  2. Corporeal contraction 5 ℓ
  3. On the other hand 5 ℓ
  4. Monotony breaker of a sort 9 ℓ
  5. Up very little 5 ℓ
  6. The Shape of Water director, or The Last Jedi codebreaker 7 ℓ
  7. What's going on 6 ℓ
  8. Sports knockdowns 4 ℓ
  9. Mina de __ 3 ℓ
  10. Duotheistic believer 6 ℓ
  11. Synopsize 8 ℓ
  12. Central Washington State Fair city 6 ℓ
  13. Was swimming 8 ℓ
  14. #2 in Open Era earnings 5 ℓ
  15. Wonderful time? 8 ℓ
  16. Query of disbelief 8 ℓ
  17. "Spill!" 6 ℓ
  18. Comparatively unfrequented 8 ℓ
  19. Appropriately, a common Hungarian prename 6 ℓ
  20. South American matzohs 6 ℓ
  21. Cold capital warmed by the Gulf Stream 4 ℓ
  22. Quick tap on a hand key 3 ℓ
  23. Name that sounds like an AL Central city 5 ℓ
  24. Half of the first Silicon Valley startup (1939) 7 ℓ
  25. What some want in a club 9 ℓ
  26. What twangs are 5 ℓ
  27. Stop flowing 4 ℓ
  28. Clarkesworld or Strange Horizons 5 ℓ
  29. Path clearers for kids 15 ℓ
  30. La mer descriptor 4 ℓ
  31. Job changer's Federal protection since '96 5 ℓ
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Down

  1. Emotional support 6 ℓ
  2. Protestor, quite possibly 8 ℓ
  3. Gets home horizontally 8 ℓ
  4. Pilot panel letters 3 ℓ
  5. honestpaws.com patron 8 ℓ
  6. Played out 5 ℓ
  7. Fledgling 4 ℓ
  8. Brown beverage 3 ℓ
  9. Lupita Nyong'o's classmates, circa 2010 4 ℓ
  10. Southeast Asian peninsula 6 ℓ
  11. Discoverer's victim, supposedly 6 ℓ
  12. Jazz Age pal of Pablo, Ezra and Gertrude 6 ℓ
  13. Every honeybee has one 6 ℓ
  14. Unexpected 6 ℓ
  15. Have in mind 6 ℓ
  16. "No One Mourns the Wicked" singer 6 ℓ
  17. Tot's rocker 6 ℓ
  18. Garb the Royal Family favors 6 ℓ
  19. __ arteries (hematic pair) 5 ℓ
  20. Whom Woolf said "wrote so many poems" 4 ℓ
  21. Look, fast or slow 4 ℓ
  22. New Scotland Yard unit 3 ℓ
  23. Belly-band around Japanese slipcases 3 ℓ
  24. Gives one away 7 ℓ
  25. Fellow's 16-pound sphere 7 ℓ
  26. Display no industry 4 ℓ
  27. XXIII multiple 3 ℓ
  28. Plentiful 7 ℓ
  29. "Wow!" in the Scrabble Dictionary since 2018 5 ℓ
  30. Abiding time 4 ℓ
  31. Secret agent descriptor 7 ℓ
  32. Any of 230+ million Africans 8 ℓ
  33. It borders Miami Gardens 8 ℓ
  34. Don't just look 3 ℓ
  35. Subject's comprehensive presentation 8 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, December 6, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Anna Stiga. The puzzle features 66 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.

Newsday SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword December 6 2025 Answers