Tropical plants said to bring good fortune Crossword Clue

Looking for the answer to “Tropical plants said to bring good fortune” from the New York Times crossword of December 12, 2025? It has 10 letters. Flip the tiles one at a time, try a hint first, or look through the rest of that puzzle.

Crossword answer

NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 12, 2025

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Hints

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Hint 1 Meaning

Hint 2 Anagram

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More clues from the New York Times (December 12, 2025)

Across

1. Some free spots, for short
5. Grounds
10. Doesn't just talk
14. "You're telling me!"
16. Word with wet or sweat
17. Conspiracy theorist's accessory
18. "Don't leave me!," e.g.
19. 16 in a Sweet Sixteen
20. Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument
22. Personal records
25. Padlocked fasteners
26. Variety of orange named for a European city
29. What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes
30. Jobs announcement of 2010
31. News feed, perhaps
35. [Waaaaah!]
36. Thick confection used for cake icing
37. Part of a golf club
38. See 5-Down
40. Binary
41. Succors
42. Photo session workers
44. Ace, e.g.
46. Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally
47. Relative of a craft fair
50. "Duino Elegies" poet
53. Saves, as a digital location
54. Clichéd line from the side of a product package
58. It's cool to drink
59. "I haven't told you the best part ..."
60. Impressively accurate pass, in football slang
61. Floats
62. Give a bad hand?

Down

1. Stone
2. Vaudeville highlight
3. Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum
4. You might pull one out for a guest
5. With 38-Across, one way to sit
6. Feel gross
7. "Gross"
8. Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
9. "Tell Mama" singer James
10. Rocky road ingredient?
11. Distinction for a classic underground work
12. Bind
13. Sticks a fork in
15. Part of NOW
21. "Fiddlesticks!"
23. Disney princess in New Orleans
24. Workshop debris
26. Possible need for entry
27. Each
28. Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?
29. Tropical plants said to bring good fortune
32. "That's the truth"
33. Kid's parent
34. Hagfish lookalikes
36. Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters
39. Performance that isn't prerecorded
40. Word from the Greek for "folded paper"
43. Butcher shop buys
44. Pleasing to the palate
45. "Buss It" rapper ___ Banks
48. Way
49. Arm of the Dept. of Labor
51. Part of a cabinet
52. French 101 verb
55. Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.
56. Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts
57. Thoroughly evaluate

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Questions

What is the answer to “Tropical plants said to bring good fortune”?

MONEYTREES, 10 letters.

When was “Tropical plants said to bring good fortune” last seen in a crossword?

In the New York Times crossword of December 12, 2025.

How many letters does the answer have?

10 letters, starting with M.