Crack Netflix Puzzled Today: Every Solution for December 21, 2025

Sunday wraps up the Netflix Puzzled week with a tougher slate than usual, and December 21, 2025 is very much in that lane. Everything resets tomorrow, so if today felt like a final boss, you’re not wrong. I ran all the modes; here are the clean, no-mess solutions plus a few notes so you can see how the sausage got made.

Bonza: Winter ___

Today’s hint is 'Winter ___', and every answer completes that setup. You’re stitching together fragments to make full words and phrases. The completed set:

Across: WONDERLAND, SOLSTICE, SPORTS
Down: COAT, BREAK, OLYMPICS

Jigsaw: Lombard Street Slalom

The jigsaw is a stylized postcard of San Francisco’s Lombard Street, closing out this week’s postcard run. It’s that famously crooked block with eight hairpin turns. Nice color work, very poster-y.

Crossover: emoji meets wordplay

This one mixes standard clues with a few cheeky emoji tiles. Here’s how the grid shakes out:

• The ___ Belt (former industrial heartland of the United States): RUST
• Lucky break (but not for the turkey): 🦴 = WISHBONE
• Makes the boss happy: OBEYS
• Stephenie of Twilight: M👁️R = MEYER
• Butchers' block origins?: OXS = OXES

Sudoku: Parquet, Snakes, A Mess of Diagonals

Three 9x9s today: 'Parquet' (Easy), 'Snakes' (Medium), and 'A Mess of Diagonals' (Hard). All use the standard rule set: each row, column, and 3x3 box needs the digits 1–9 exactly once. Nothing sneaky beyond the patterns implied by the names.

Starstruck: one star per row, column, and region

Remember: exactly one star in every row, column, and colored region, and stars can’t touch even diagonally.

Easy ('LT'):
Row 1, Col 5
Row 2, Col 2
Row 3, Col 7
Row 4, Col 4
Row 5, Col 1
Row 6, Col 7
Row 7, Col 3

Hard ('Pear'):
Row 1, Col 5
Row 2, Col 2
Row 3, Col 7
Row 4, Col 3
Row 5, Col 7
Row 6, Col 4
Row 7, Col 6
Row 8, Col 1
Row 9, Col 7

Waywords: Winter Sports

You’re spelling a route through the grid, with a few tiles replaced by emoji. The full path includes: HOC🔑 = HOCKEY, CURLING, SKIING, SKATING, ❄️🛹ING = SNOWBOARDING, and ❄️👟ING = SNOWSHOEING.

Shapes: Wax Poetic

Tangram time. Arrange the pieces into a candle in a gold candlestick. When the silhouette locks in, you get this little seasonal note:

December 21 marks the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. Let your light shine.

Keysmash: Supervocalics (AEIOU)

Every answer here uses all five vowels at least once. Fill-ins:

Left- and right-handed: AMBIDEXTROUS
Actress who played Tinker Bell in 'Hook' (2 words): JULIA ROBERTS
Fancy writing implement with a metal nib (2 words): FOUNTAIN PEN
Seventh heaven or cloud nine: EUPHORIA
Toyota named for a massive tree: SEQUOIA

If you still have solving energy after this lot, I’ve got a running top-10 list of daily puzzle staples I like to bounce between. But for today, that’s the full Sunday slate. How’d it go for you?