NYT Crossword Answers Today: Tricky Clues Solved Across and Down

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 Out of whack : ASKEW

6 Rock group behind 2024’s Power Up Tour : ACDC

10 What a bodybuilder builds during a bulk cycle : MASS

14 Sudden weather phenomenon : FLASHFLOOD

16 Closing on Sundays? : AMEN

17 Cocktail that’s called a French 75 if you use Champagne instead of soda water : TOMCOLLINS

18 Mulligan : REDO

19 Eponymous tourist destination in Belgium : SPA

20 Basis of some admissions : GUILT

21 Strength, poetically : SINEW

22 Area between the ribs and the round : LOIN

23 Heaps of dressing? : LAUNDRY

25 Responded identically to : ECHOED

28 On the ___ : FENCE

29 Early synthesizers : MOOGS

30 Ringing nuisance : PRANKCALL

34 Like a face telling a spooky campfire story, maybe : UPLIT

35 Give juice to : REV

36 “Ditto” : SODOI

37 Words before someone finally snaps? : SAYCHEESE

39 Bridge support : TRUSS

40 Stool at a counter, e.g. : PERCH

41 Woody’s crush in “Toy Story” : BOPEEP

42 Member of a warrior class : SAMURAI

45 Small stretches, perhaps : FIBS

46 Cherish : PRIZE

47 Much-sought-after commodity in “Dune” : SPICE

49 Singer Rita : ORA

52 Ice skating move : LUTZ

53 Postgame photo op between two opposing players : JERSEYSWAP

55 First person to die, according to the Bible : ABEL

56 They’re part of the story : PLOTPOINTS

57 Set back to zero, in a way : TARE

58 Press rooms? : GYMS

59 Wipe from one’s visual memory, so to speak : UNSEE

Down

1 Common nap times, in brief : AFTS

2 Subpar dining hall food : SLOP

3 Hindu god of love : KAMA

4 F1 neighbor : ESC

5 Challenge to an intruder : WHOGOESTHERE

6 Like a fearless bettor at a casino : ALLIN

7 Spring : COIL

8 Command to stay : DONTLEAVE

9 Items harmed when they’re scratched, but not when they’re burned : CDS

10 Group whose band is the oldest professional music ensemble in the U.S. : MARINECORPS

11 Change : AMEND

12 Meal before the 15th of Nisan : SEDER

13 White out, say : SNOWY

15 Not set in stone : FLUID

21 “That’s rather unfortunate,” dismissively : SUCKSTOBEYOU

22 Exercise in deduction : LOGICPUZZLE

24 ___ Taylor (fashion chain) : ANN

25 Australia declared “war” on them in 1932, in an attempt to stop them from destroying crops : EMUS

26 Where Lola was a showgirl, in song : COPA

27 Deified, say : HOLY

28 Farm-to-table, say : FRESH

30 “Couldn’t have said it better myself” : PRECISELY

31 For two musicians : ADUE

32 Ditch : LOSE

33 Aristotle purportedly spoke with one : LISP

38 Word often after a president’s name : ERA

41 Curling target : BICEP

42 Bad sound to hear by a kitchen counter : SPLAT

43 Dutch constituent in the Caribbean : ARUBA

44 Bishop’s headwear : MITER

45 Hitmakers? : FISTS

48 Simple question on a high schooler’s hand-drawn poster : PROM

49 Dominates : OWNS

50 Power or frequency, essentially : RATE

51 Church part : APSE

53 PNG alternative : JPG

54 Motif in 1995’s “Se7en” : SIN