The Holiday Crossword: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Today’s theme: 2025 in literature.
Today’s theme: 2025 in literature.
December 23, 2025
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Video
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Virtual Togetherness Through Partner Crosswords
](https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/virtual-togetherness-through-partner-crosswords)
Social dynamics of the crossworld, a crossword meet-cute, and other ways to puzzle with friends while social distancing.
Mini Crossword
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The Mini Crossword: Friday, December 12, 2025
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/mini-crossword/2025/12/12)
Grain-storage structures: five letters.
Laugh Lines
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Laugh Lines No. 51: Holidays, Part 2
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-51#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
Laugh Lines
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Laugh Lines No. 49: Magic
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-49#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
Laugh Lines
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Laugh Lines No. 48: Doctors, Part 3
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-48#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
Laugh Lines
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Laugh Lines No. 50: On the Phone, Part 3
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-50#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
Shuffalo
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Shuffalo: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2025/12/03#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
Shuffalo
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Shuffalo: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
](https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2025/12/09#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
Puzzles & Games Dept.
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Going to Press
](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/going-to-press#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
Can you make your way through The New Yorker’s labyrinthine offices before our printer shuts down for the holidays?
Takes
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Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State”
](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/takes/lawrence-wright-on-a-j-lieblings-the-great-state#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc_f0d20042-105a-4fac-8a99-5bfca427d324_roberta-similarity1)
For all the humor in his reporting, Liebling recognized Louisiana’s governor as something more than another political buffoon. That insight made the piece a classic.