Free Printable Crossword Puzzle #3

This is the Daily Crossword Puzzle #3 for Dec 16, 2025
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Across
  • 1. Kitchen flooring piece
  • 5. Heavy metal
  • 9. Sauce made with basil
  • 14. Scent
  • 15. "Garfield" dog
  • 16. Playground retort
  • 17. Sightseeing group leader
  • 19. Paper fragment
  • 20. Like an antique
  • 21. Soda-bottle size
  • 22. Watermelon features
  • 23. Poet Ogden
  • 24. Winter precipitation
  • 26. North African desert
  • 29. Aspen equipment
  • 30. Purring pet
  • 33. Wake up
  • 34. Bowler's target
  • 35. TV movie channel
  • 36. Greek cheese
  • 37. Construction-site lifter
  • 39. Complain
  • 40. Envelope contents: Abbr.
  • 41. That woman
  • 42. Bring about
  • 43. Pep-rally word
  • 44. Fire-hydrant attachment
  • 45. Author
  • 46. Take in, as a child
  • 48. Brother of Abel
  • 49. Cook's cover-up
  • 51. Sky lights
  • 53. Sphere
  • 56. River through Paris
  • 57. School assignment
  • 59. Fusses
  • 60. Verbal exam
  • 61. Narrow street
  • 62. Motionless
  • 63. Feel sorry for
  • 64. Farm implement
Puzzle Grid
Down
  • 1. Yellow Brick Road canine
  • 2. Fan-club favorite
  • 3. Noisy
  • 4. Goof up
  • 5. __ May Alcott
  • 6. Archie Bunker's wife
  • 7. Office assistant
  • 8. Leather-jacket material
  • 9. Free tickets
  • 10. Game-show host
  • 11. Elongate
  • 12. Frog relative
  • 13. Clumsy one's cry
  • 18. Harsh light
  • 23. Cape Canaveral org.
  • 25. Down the __ (eventually)
  • 26. More secure
  • 27. Sports complex
  • 28. Use one's thumb for transportation
  • 29. Tire in the trunk
  • 31. Belittle
  • 32. Copier chemical
  • 37. Pork serving
  • 38. Turnpike feature
  • 39. Primary
  • 42. Like just-cooked bacon
  • 44. "I'm telling the truth!"
  • 45. With affection
  • 47. Charity supporter
  • 48. Diamond unit
  • 49.
  • 50. Unskilled worker
  • 52. Actress Hatcher
  • 53. Whitish gemstone
  • 54. Nevada city
  • 55. Make, as tea
  • 58. Swiss peak