NYT Crossword Answers Today: Solve the Daily Puzzle Effortlessly

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.

NYT Crossword answers today

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Across

1 Brainy : SMART

6 Wacky : ZANY

10 Desktop computer that might run Sonoma or Sequoia : IMAC

14 Choir member : TENOR

15 Writer Wiesel : ELIE

16 Forbidden : NOGO

17 Waiter’s imperative after bringing food : ENJOY

18 Flower that reflects yellow when held under one’s chin : BUTTERCUP

20 It might have a twist or hole : PLOT

21 What a sleeve covers : ARM

22 “Don’t worry about me!” : IMOKAY

23 Primitive timer : HOURGLASS

26 Surface for doing exercises : MAT

27 Globes : ORBS

28 Going out romantically : ONADATE

32 #1 pal : BESTIE

35 Language suffix : ESE

36 Father : SIRE

37 Music genre prefix : ALT

38 N.F.L. all-star game : PROBOWL

41 Texter’s reaction to a joke : LOL

42 Some beers : ALES

44 Bathroom fixture : TUB

45 Clinks a glass and gives a speech to : TOASTS

47 Indian pastries with savory fillings : SAMOSAS

49 Obnoxious person, informally : TOOL

50 “All you need is love and a ___” (old saying) : CAT

51 Place for policy wonks : THINKTANK

56 Huge to-dos : SCENES

59 “Sounds good!” : YES

60 Norse god of war and death : ODIN

61 Make logical sense … or what the ends of 18-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across do : HOLDWATER

63 Grammarian’s concern : USAGE

64 Troubles : ILLS

65 Number of planets before Pluto was demoted : NINE

66 Food item that might come with lox : BAGEL

67 El ___, Tex. : PASO

68 Exhausted, metaphorically : DEAD

69 Put forth, as effort : EXERT

Down

1 Basketball star Curry : STEPH

2 ___ Park, location of Edison’s first major laboratory : MENLO

3 Type of pear : ANJOU

4 Plant affliction that’s below ground : ROOTROT

5 Attempt : TRY

6 Creatures that are actually black with white stripes : ZEBRAS

7 What grads become : ALUMS

8 Tiny complaint : NIT

9 Abominable Snowman : YETI

10 Advances : INROADS

11 Shirley Temple and Virgin Bloody Mary, for two : MOCKTAILS

12 H₂O, in Mexico : AGUA

13 “I understand you” : COPY

19 Character described by Austen as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like” : EMMA

21 Canadian province that’s home to the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site : ALBERTA

24 Grasp tightly : GRIP

25 Meh : SOSO

29 Units of force : NEWTONS

30 Gait faster than a walk but slower than a canter : TROT

31 Snakelike fish : EELS

32 Sheep sounds : BAAS

33 “Enchanted” girl in a Gail Carson Levine book : ELLA

34 Biomedical building blocks : STEMCELLS

35 Recede, as the tide : EBB

39 Remove from office : OUST

40 Cry made while pointing : LOOK

43 No-goodnik : SOANDSO

46 Jazz combo instrument : ALTOSAX

48 Dish served from a crockpot : STEW

49 In stacks, like a wedding cake : TIERED

52 Evil hench-animal in “The Lion King” : HYENA

53 “The early bird gets the worm,” for one : ADAGE

54 Landlocked African country : NIGER

55 Prepared to propose : KNELT

56 Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern parlance : SHIP

57 Pepsi or Coke : COLA

58 Contents of a 23-Across : SAND

62 “How to ___ a ___” (common tutorial topic) : TIE

63 Purple yam common in Filipino cooking : UBE