NYT Crossword Answers Today: January 21, 2024

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 Gobble : SNARF

6 English pop duo with the 1984 hit “Last Christmas” : WHAM

10 First book after the four Gospels : ACTS

14 Slicker, as a winter road : ICIER

15 Name of Sporty Spice in the Spice Girls : MELC

16 TV host Trevor with the memoir “Born a Crime” : NOAH

17 Convenient source of tinctures and tonics : CORNERDRUGSTORE

20 Bit of workout apparel, informally : TEE

21 Dish with a Cantonese counterpart called egg foo yong : OMELETTE

22 Tool that may be used as a hoe : ADZ

25 Needs for in vitro fertilization : OVA

27 Prefix with liberal : NEO

28 Actor McShane : IAN

29 Singer of “Despacito,” which has more than eight billion views on YouTube : LUISFONSI

32 Exploitative ones : USERS

34 Mardi Gras follower : LENT

35 Fish also called a nishikigoi : KOI

36 Surreptitiously let in on an email : BCC

37 Popular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle : SCAVENGERHUNT

42 Kettle component : LID

43 Figure painted by Warhol : MAO

44 Skip out of a party : BAIL

46 Canine welcomes : BARKS

49 Item with hinged legs : CARDTABLE

51 Salt Lake City-to-Minneapolis dir. : ENE

52 ___ Jordan, a.k.a. the Green Lantern : HAL

54 Neither’s partner : NOR

55 Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom : SEX

56 Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically : CYLINDER

59 Stir-fry accessory : WOK

61 “That’s not even the half of it …” : OHYOUHAVENOIDEA

66 Body personified by the Greek Titan Selene : MOON

67 Walkie-talkie word : OVER

68 Cultivates, in a way : PLOWS

69 So, so, so long : EONS

70 “Barbie” actor Michael : CERA

71 Like Pittsburgh’s Canton Avenue, famously : STEEP

Down

1 [as printed!] : SIC

2 Cpl. or sgt. : NCO

3 Word with open or central : AIR

4 Monthly budget item : RENT

5 No longer burdened by : FREEOF

6 Nuke, for one : WMD

7 Hoagie : HERO

8 Reunion attendees : ALUMNI

9 Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby ___” : MCGEE

10 It may be a chip or two : ANTE

11 Playground pathogen : COOTIE

12 Dental detritus : TARTAR

13 Glosses : SHEENS

18 Annulled, as a license : REVOKED

19 Sit non-ergonomically : SLOUCH

22 100% : ALL

23 Union requirements : DUES

24 Brass component : ZINC

26 In a bit, to a poet : ANON

30 Celery component : STALK

31 Greek letter that represents summation : SIGMA

33 Marine photographer’s aid : SCUBA

36 Hang with the boys, slangily : BRODOWN

38 God whose avatars restore cosmic order : VISHNU

39 Net : EARN

40 Catches in the act : NABS

41 Rummikub piece : TILE

45 Superman foe ___ Luthor : LEX

46 “2 ___ 1” (Spice Girls song) : BECOME

47 “O.K. … moving on!” : ANYHOO

48 Have as support : RELYON

49 Use an ax on, perhaps : CLEAVE

50 Military force : TROOPS

53 Like some committees : ADHOC

57 + or – bits : IONS

58 One vacationing in a camper, informally : RVER

60 Bagpiper’s wear : KILT

62 Big time : ERA

63 Fawn’s mother : DOE

64 Lamb’s mother : EWE

65 Snake created by Medusa’s blood, in myth : ASP