The New York Times has a full lineup of word games today, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword. But when it comes to daily challenges, the standard crossword puzzle remains a classic favorite. Solving these puzzles is a great way to test your trivia knowledge, improve mental flexibility, and earn some bragging rights. Even if some days feel impossible, remember that solving crosswords is a skill that improves with practice.
If you’re stuck on today’s NYT Crossword puzzle, don’t worry—here are all the answers to help you out.
NYT Crossword answers!
Across
- “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” band: ABBA
- Actor Driver: ADAM
- ___ on a true story: BASED
- “Yippee!,” in internet-speak: WOOT
- Rich vein of ore: LODE
- Proverb: ADAGE
- Young horse: FOAL
- Garnish for a glass of iced tea: LEMONWEDGE
- How some things are better left: UNSAID
- Response to “Call me!”: IWILL
- Disappoints: LETSDOWN
- “I don’t need that back”: KEEPIT
- Number of U.S. states without any straight borders: ONE
- Fish-and-chips fish: COD
- Tennis champion Swiatek: IGA
- Appliance at a hotel breakfast bar: WAFFLEIRON
- Tree of the tropics: PALM
- Pseudonym: ALIAS
- Big wad: GOB
- Watercraft prone to tipping: CANOE
- Something forbidden: NONO
- Expensive cabinet material: CHERRYWOOD
- San Jose-to-Sacramento dir.: NNE
- “Survivor” shelter: HUT
- Nickname for a Bronx-born U.S. congresswoman: AOC
- Shares the same view: AGREES
- Secluded: ISOLATED
- Where Nissan and Nintendo are headquartered: JAPAN
- Legendary stoner?: MEDUSA
- Credit card industry pioneer … or a hint to 18-, 32-, and 42-Across: DINERSCLUB
- Prefix with climactic: ANTI
- The “Iliad” and the “Odyssey,” for two: EPICS
- Org. that runs the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA
- Slippery part of a banana: PEEL
- Foamy coffee order: LATTE
- She-sheep: EWES
- Guitarist Anastasio of Phish: TREY
Down
- Terrible: AWFUL
- American frontiersman Daniel: BOONE
- Caesar’s “Veni, vidi, vici” is a famous one: BOAST
- Book of maps: ATLAS
- “Finished!”: ALLDONE
- Anonymous Jane or John: DOE
- Website overseer, for short: ADMIN
- Be a chatty catty?: MEOW
- Cried one’s eyes out: BAWLED
- “Rolling in the Deep” singer: ADELE
- Forlorn: SAD
- Binding agent in baking: EGG
- Grade that’s not as bad as eff: DEE
- Big name in cameras: NIKON
- Greatly admired figures: IDOLS
- Package measurement: WEIGHT
- With 51-Down, someone who gets keys in key: PIANO
- Arctic home: IGLOO
- Domesticated: TAMED
- Snake charmers’ snakes: COBRAS
- “___ Get Away?” (Southwest Airlines slogan): WANNA
- Together (with): ALONG
- More exquisite: FINER
- ___ Schwarz (toy retailer): FAO
- Caviar: ROE
- Feline foot: PAW
- Ride a bike: CYCLE
- Inflection points: CUSPS
- Robotic vacuum cleaners: ROOMBAS
- Funeral vehicle: HEARSE
- Last-resort button in a cockpit: EJECT
- Family member by marriage: INLAW
- Modify: ADAPT
- See 26-Down: TUNER
- Lauder of cosmetics: ESTEE
- Word with Double or Planet: DAILY
- Teen’s skin affliction: ACNE
- Marina ___ Rey, Calif.: DEL
- Hoppy brew, for short: IPA
- Minor criticism: NIT
- Purpose: USE
Happy solving!
