Free Printable Crossword Puzzle #5

This is the Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Dec 16, 2025
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Across
  • 1. Swiftness
  • 6. Hardens
  • 10. Circle segments
  • 14. "____ of Two Cities" (2 wds.)
  • 15. Western state
  • 16. Ark patriarch
  • 17. Old-fashioned
  • 18. Sacred writing
  • 20. Compass dir.
  • 21. Butter portion
  • 23. Removed
  • 24. Fable collector
  • 26. Defeated ones
  • 27. Briny
  • 30. Singer ____ Williams
  • 32. Purple fruit
  • 33. Rice and Frank
  • 35. Giraffe's feature
  • 39. Capri or Wight
  • 40. Corn unit
  • 41. "____ sesame!"
  • 42. Narrated
  • 43. Formal necktie
  • 45. Distance measure
  • 46. Trick
  • 47. Soothsayer
  • 49. Traps
  • 53. Performed
  • 55. Skills
  • 57. Race an engine
  • 58. English tavern
  • 61. Turn into gas
  • 63. Remove
  • 65. Office message
  • 66. Words of comprehension (2 wds.)
  • 67. Make merry
  • 68. Narrow opening
  • 69. Office acronym
  • 70. Put forth
Puzzle Grid
Down
  • 1. Exhausts
  • 2. Sch. groups
  • 3. Relaxation
  • 4. City railways
  • 5. Intensify
  • 6. Zest
  • 7. List abbr.
  • 8. Animal fat
  • 9. Knight protectors
  • 10. Stakes
  • 11. Map word
  • 12. Concerned one
  • 13. Tool buildings
  • 19. Scheme
  • 22. Voyaging
  • 24. Pointed a gun
  • 25. Cure-all
  • 27. Barbecue rod
  • 28. And
  • 29. Calm
  • 31. Notorious emperor
  • 34. Monster's loch
  • 35. Wanderer
  • 36. Long story
  • 37. ____ phone
  • 38. Leg joint
  • 43. Vienna's country
  • 44. Handbag
  • 46. Nevada city
  • 48. Worship
  • 49. Pipe parts
  • 50. ____ orange
  • 51. Texas shrine
  • 52. Plant again
  • 54. Crawl
  • 56. Brashness
  • 58. Do roadwork
  • 59. Consumer
  • 60. Leather strap
  • 62. Earl Grey, e.g.
  • 64. Tyrannosaurus ____