The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging rights if you manage to finish it every day.
While the NYT puzzle might feel like an impossible task some days, solving a crossword is a skill and it takes practice — don’t get discouraged if you can’t get every single word in a puzzle.
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If you’re having trouble completing today’s NYT Crossword, we’re here to help. We’ve got all the answers for today’s clues down below.
NYT Crossword answers today
Across
1 Sources of unwanted feedback, perhaps : AMPS
5 Capital city with the Holmenkollen Ski Museum, home to the world’s largest collection of skis : OSLO
9 Cause of lens flare : GLARE
14 In a moment : SOON
15 Shoot forth : SPEW
16 School tool : RULER
17 Coloring implement since 1903 : CRAYOLACRAYON
19 China’s Zhou ___ : ENLAI
20 Atop, poetically : OER
21 Flying mammals : BATS
22 Make like South Sudan in 2011 : SECEDE
23 Deep-fried Japanese fare : TEMPURA
25 Comic strip with a collection titled “Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet” : CATHY
26 Blade runner? : SLED
27 “You should open this on a personal device” heads-up : NSFW
29 Quaint contraction : TWAS
32 Sine ___ non : QUA
35 Film representations : PORTRAYALS
37 Kind of computer port : USB
40 Books with legends : ATLASES
42 Jones (for) : YEN
43 Parent working behind the scenes? : STAGEMOM
45 Bit of cream : DAB
47 Totally bonkers : CRAYCRAY
48 Make a big to-do (over) : FUSS
50 Big name in sunglasses : RAYBAN
54 Domesticated : TAMED
56 Move to the beat? : PULSATE
59 Montmartre sweetheart : CHERIE
61 Christmas tree decoration : CANE
62 What a coxswain notably doesn’t do : ROW
63 Worked on a trireme, e.g. : OARED
64 Downsizer? … or a hint to six squares in this puzzle : SHRINKRAY
66 Lewis Carroll, for Charles Dodgson : ALIAS
67 Bentley or Benz, e.g. : AUTO
68 Asian soup : MISO
69 “… he that is unjust in the ___ is unjust also in much”: Luke 16:10 : LEAST
70 Cyclops, for one : XMAN
71 Annual presidential speech, in brief : SOTU
Down
1 Dapper sartorial choices : ASCOTS
2 Reef predator with extendable pharyngeal jaws : MORAYEEL
3 Self-pitying lament : POORME
4 Show on which Julia Louis-Dreyfus got her big break, in brief : SNL
5 Hammerstein of Rodgers and Hammerstein : OSCAR
6 Artificial bronze : SPRAYTAN
7 Fiery sorts, it’s said : LEOS
8 B.Y.O.B. part : OWN
9 Say hello to : GREET
10 Makeshift shield during a food fight : LUNCHTRAY
11 What a rear exit may lead to : ALLEYWAY
12 Pore over : READ
13 Pennsylvania home of minor-league baseball’s SeaWolves : ERIE
18 ___ Dhabi : ABU
22 Got steamed : SAWRED
24 A.S.A.P. : PDQ
25 Corporate $$$ overseers : CFOS
28 Abuses the listserv, say : SPAMS
30 “For a quart of ___ is a dish for a king”: Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” : ALE
31 W-9 info : SSN
33 Land on the Gulf of Oman, for short : UAE
34 Bank withdrawal charge : ATMFEE
36 Air marshal’s org. : TSA
37 Sch. that’s home to the Warner Bros. Archives : USC
38 Potential rescue pet : STRAY
39 Culture group : BACTERIA
41 Like a lime green suit : LOUD
44 They’re open to interpretation : GRAYAREAS
46 Hee-haws : BRAYS
49 Athens’s rival in the Peloponnesian War : SPARTA
51 Spanish Harlem, e.g. : BARRIO
52 Wedding reception cry : ATOAST
53 Goal of self-improvement, perhaps : NEWYOU
55 In our ___ (among us) : MIDST
57 The “U” of 71-Across : UNION
58 ___ Deighton, British spy novelist : LEN
59 Declining industry of Appalachia : COAL
60 Strong and healthy : HALE
61 Shark bait : CHUM
64 Jazz instrument : SAX
65 Berlin Marathon units: Abbr. : KMS