LA Times Daily Crossword December 23, 2025 Answers

1. Root beer brand owned by Coca-Cola 6. Tightly closed 10. Smile joyously 14. Indigenous Alaskan 15. Work hard for 16. Feminine Spanish pronoun 17. Roman robes 18. Rather often 20. Jackie on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 21. Mardi Gras, for one: Abbr. 22. Selling point 23. In large quantities 27. Name on a former lake in Central Asia 28. "Guys and Dolls" composer Frank 32. "Been __, done that" 35. Chapel bench 36. Med. plan option 37. Taunting remark 42. Chicken __ king 43. Hundred Acre Wood joey 44. Cropped up 45. Antarctic body of water with penguin rookeries 48. "Othello" frenemy 50. NHL legend known as "The Great One" 55. Poker buy-ins 58. Final tally 59. Prefix with -gram 60. Handmade backyard nest box, and an apt description of 18-, 23-, 37-, and 50-Across 63. Hollowed out 64. Crossword hint 65. Finds a purpose for 66. Blender setting for pumpkin pie filling 67. "As __ on TV" 68. "Devil Inside" band 69. Ring-shaped island

1. Baker's sheetful 2. "Welcome to Maui!" 3. Middle daughter of King Lear 4. Difficult situation 5. MA, ME, MI, and MO, but not MU 6. Follow-up film 7. Rutger of "Blade Runner" 8. Ocean State sch. 9. Blasting letters 10. __ of burden: plow-pulling animals 11. Letter-shaped pipe joints 12. __ vera gel 13. "The Simpsons" creator Groening 19. "At __, soldier!" 21. FDR energy project 24. Dirt pie cookie 25. Escape in a hurry 26. Ames locale 29. "Go on, git!" 30. Big birds of Australia 31. Learning by repetition 32. Salty drop 33. Saintly glow 34. Airport pickup figs. 35. Vietnamese soup 38. Manhattan Project scientist Harold 39. Multicolored horse 40. All the __: very popular 41. Brings forward for display 46. Country between Finland and Norway 47. Merit badge holder 48. "Well, maybe" 49. Sleeve 51. English county south of Suffolk 52. Masked vigilante whose name is Spanish for "fox" 53. Genuflect 54. Alpine song 55. School basics 56. Aswan's river 57. Factual 61. French yes 62. Top Gun org. 63. Audit firm pro