{"id":326732,"date":"2025-12-05T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326732\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:24:08","slug":"puzzle-solutions-for-friday-dec-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326732\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle solutions for Friday, Dec. 5, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>CROSSWORDSUSA TODAY crossword<img alt=\"Distributed by Andrews McMeel\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"504\" height=\"360\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63cc5c9f8ee0fa9bbb81951259362323.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Distributed by Andrews McMeel<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Play the USA TODAY <a href=\"https:\/\/puzzles.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Crossword Puzzle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Crossword Puzzle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Times crosswordToday&#8217;s crossword (McMeel)Daily Commuter crosswordSUDOKU<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Play the USA TODAY <a href=\"https:\/\/puzzles.usatoday.com\/sudoku\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sudoku Game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sudoku Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JUMBLE<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jumble: OUTDO COURT FENNEL ZEALOT<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Answer: They thought the telemarketer&#8217;s approach to selling was \u2212 UNCALLED-FOR<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by Tribune Content Agency)<\/p>\n<p>CRYPTOGRAPHY PUZZLESCelebrity Cipher<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a bit of magic in everything, and then some loss to even things out.&#8221; \u2212 Lou Reed<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by Andrews McMeel)<\/p>\n<p>Cryptoquote<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. ONE IS AS THOUGH NOTHING IS A MIRACLE. THE OTHER IS AS THOUGH EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE. \u2212 ALBERT EINSTEIN<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by King Features)<\/p>\n<p>Cryptoquip<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AMERICAN STATE IN WHICH RESIDENTS CONSUME WHOPPING AMOUNTS OF ALBACORE AND BLUEFIN: TUNA-SEE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by King Features)<\/p>\n<p>OTHER PUZZLESBoggle<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WINDY SUNNY RAINY CLOUDY STORMY<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by Tribune Content Agency)<\/p>\n<p>Lexigo<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">VISITS, STARTER, REVIVES, SWERVED, DETER<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by Andrews McMeel)<\/p>\n<p>KenKenScrabblegrams7 Little Words<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by Andrews McMeel)<\/p>\n<p>Find the Words<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Playing games of chance<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Distributed by Creators Syndicate)<\/p>\n<p>Kubok<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/usa-today-crossword-puzzle-answers-12-5-2025\/87381386007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Puzzle solutions for Friday, Dec. 5, 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Puzzle solutions for Friday, Dec. 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144454,49,48,61,144452,144453],"class_list":["post-326732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-andrews-mcmeel","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-tribune-content-agency","tag-usa-today-crossword"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}