Each day, the USA Today Crossword offers a fun challenge that tests your vocabulary and general knowledge. Today’s (December 6, 2025) puzzle delivers a blend of easy and tricky clues to keep you thinking. Need help moving forward? Below, you’ll find today’s hints and solutions to guide you through the grid.

Across

1A Metroid protagonist – SAMUS

6A Browser divisions – TABS

10A “That’s wild” – NOWAY

14A Wipe clean – ERASE

15A Be next to – ABUT

16A Egg-laying farm birds – HENS

17A Recollection that shapes one’s worldview and sense of self – AUTOBIOGRAPHICALMEMORY

19A Shrill shouts – YELPS

20A “Stop oversharing pls!” – TMI

21A Half of an Arnold Palmer – TEA

23A Eggs on sushi – ROE

24A Performed in a choir – SANG

26A Praise poems – ODES

27A Bagel sandwich eateries – DELIS

29A Sail the seven ___ – SEAS

31A Bricklaying workers – MASONS

32A Home nation of author Akwaeke Emezi – NIGERIA

37A Kiddo – SON

38A It’s the least you can do! – AMERE

40A Anatomical pouch – SAC

41A Bucharest’s country – ROMANIA

42A Fictional city with a Bat-Signal – GOTHAM

44A Sidling crustacean – CRAB

47A Septet + one – OCTET

48A Group of actors – CAST

52A Mongolian tent – YURT

54A Result that might send a game to overtime – TIE

55A ABBA’s genre – DISCO

58A Big Apple college, for short – NYU

59A Knitter’s ball – YARN

61A Being that’s puny compared to a god – MORTAL

63A “The Badass Feminist Coloring Book” author Ijeoma – OLUO

64A Org. against fur and leather – PETA

65A Drizzles, say – RAINS

66A Mail delivery org. – USPS

67A Practice fighting – SPAR

68A Consonant used in the Greek spelling of “Athena” – ETA

Down

1D Religious offshoots – SECTS

2D Pleasant smells – AROMAS

3D Related to the 29-Across – MARINE

4D Employ – USE

5D Matchup before a championship – SEMIFINAL

6D Domesticated – TAME

7D “Humble” residence – ABODE

8D ___ Bees (lip balm brand) – BURTS

9D Eyelid bump – STYE

10D “How come?” – NOWHY

11D Keepsake passed down through generations – HEIRLOOM

12D Relevant – APT

13D Evaluate – WEIGH

18D ___ mode (gas-saving car setting) – ECO

22D Accessibility law (Abbr.) – ADA

25D Chocolate-and-cream emulsion – GANACHE

28D Environment with brackish water – ESTUARY

30D “___ Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland” (children’s book) – SIR

31D Primary – MAIN

33D Hand sanitizer target – GERMS

34D Brooding – GLOOMY

35D Where trails at the Grand Canyon begin – RIMS

36D “. . . and a partridge ___ pear tree” – IN A

38D “Next to the plate!” – UP

39D Karaoke bar prop – MIC

40D Casual gatherings – SOIREES

42D “Understood” – GOTIT

43D Had lunch, perhaps – ATE

45D Native matriarch – CHIEFTAINESS

46D College gymnastics star Haleigh – BRYANT

48D Move slowly – CREEP

49D Largest artery – AORTA

50D Long, pointed weapon – SPEAR

51D ___ kha kai – TOM

53D Oklahoma city once home to the WNBA’s Shock – TULSA

56D Baseball refs – UMPIRES

57D Any ___ in a storm – PORT

60D Rejections – NOS

62D “Go, team!” – RAH

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