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.
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 Hearty : ROBUST
7 Suck up : ABSORB
13 “This cannot be stressed enough …” : IREPEAT
15 Fairly : RATHER
16 Cello parts are written in it : BASSCLEF
18 Occasionally censored part of the 12-Down : NIPPLE
19 Quarterback’s stat: Abbr. : ATT
20 Canned liquid rich in essential fatty acids : TUNAOIL
22 Broadway’s Salonga : LEA
23 Lowry who wrote “The Giver” : LOIS
25 Work out : SOLVE
26 Where the lions sleep tonight, presumably : DENS
27 Concoct, with “up” : DREAM
29 Go through : USE
30 One of the “Hollywood Chrises” : PRATT
31 Flawless display of technique : MASTERCLASS
34 Dog’s post-surgery wear, familiarly : CONEOFSHAME
35 Head cold? : BRAINFREEZE
36 Play place : ARENA
37 “It was news to me,” in online shorthand : TIL
38 Take in : ADMIT
42 Concessions : SOPS
43 Some compost bin detritus : PEELS
45 Iconic role for Frank Oz : YODA
46 Main ingredient of the Puerto Rican dessert piragua : ICE
47 Compounds in tea and wine : TANNINS
49 It’s a no. : TEL
50 Fonda’s co-star on “Grace and Frankie” : TOMLIN
52 Another name for C## : DNATURAL
54 Yo-yos : IDIOTS
55 Mount Rushmore’s makeup : GRANITE
56 What might be included in an act of congress : SEXTOY
57 Scandinavian capital : KRONER
Down
1 Bawdy : RIBALD
2 Podium figure : ORATOR
3 Closest confidant, informally : BESTIE
4 High times : UPS
5 Sunni or Shia, e.g. : SECT
6 Bone connected to the fibula : TALUS
7 Nickname for an early 2000s governor of California : ARNIE
8 Flake : BAIL
9 Indy label : STP
10 “Come on, that’s just ridiculous” : OHPLEASE
11 Lets up : RELENTS
12 See 18-Across : BREAST
14 Perfect score : TENOUTOFTEN
17 Misleading cognate, like the German “Gift” which actually means “poison” : FALSEFRIEND
21 What hucksters may be guilty of : OVERSELLING
24 Ethnic minority in New Zealand : SAMOANS
26 It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry : DRAMEDY
28 Fever pitch : MANIA
30 Square : PLAZA
32 Kamala Harris, once: Abbr. : SEN
33 “Guerrillero Heroico” subject, familiarly : CHE
34 Timesaver for a breakfast chef : CREPEMIX
35 Male protocol popularized by “How I Met Your Mother” : BROCODE
36 “Currently …” : ASITIS
39 Tylenol alternative : MOTRIN
40 Conceptualize : IDEATE
41 Like firstborn children vis-à-vis second-born children, statistically : TALLER
43 Violet variety : PANSY
44 Tone of many tweets : SNARK
47 “La Clemenza di ___” (Mozart opera) : TITO
48 Have the lead : STAR
51 Fate : LOT
53 ___ Show ‘Em No Mercy (card game variant) : UNO