The New York Times offers a variety of word games, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword. But if you’re tackling the standard daily crossword puzzle, you know it’s the pinnacle of brain teasers. Solving it not only sharpens your mind but also gives you some bragging rights. While it can be challenging, don’t get discouraged if you can’t solve every clue immediately. Practice makes perfect!
If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle, don’t worry. We’ve got the answers right here to help you out. Check out the solutions below:
NYT Crossword answers for August 9
Across
- Listing on a résumé: SKILL
- Bad news from a maître d’: WAIT
- Ocean spray: MIST
- The Black Keys and the White Stripes, e.g.: INDIEBANDS
- “Why would you ever think that?!”: UMNO
- Retire while successful: GOOUTONTOP
- Music magazine since 1985: SPIN
- Short elevations?: HTS
- T, for one: MODEL
- Sparkly collectible: GEODE
- Early stage: BETA
- Top marks: APLUSES
- Goes easy on: SPARES
- Sub groups: BTEAMS
- Email ancestor: TELEX
- Taps one’s foot, maybe: KEEPSTIME
- Where you can find ME: USMAP
- Nonstandard: Abbr.: IRR
- Unlit?: SOBER
- Subway fare: FOOTLONGS
- City once home to Black Wall Street: TULSA
- Animals that appear in the fossil record before trees: SHARKS
- Unlawful coercion: DURESS
- Sources of some political gaffes: HOTMICS
- Middle word of a Stowe title: TOMS
- Introduce to the mix: ADDIN
- What awakens Godzilla from the ocean, informally: HBOMB
- “Les ___”: MIZ
- Japanese noodles: UDON
- Rodeo event: BARRELRACE
- Camp sight: TENT
- “It’s been too long!”: IMISSEDYOU
- You are, on the Yucatán: ERES
- Helpful how-to: DEMO
- “Why don’t sheep shrink when it ___?”: George Carlin: RAINS
Down
- Something to heave: SIGH
- Wedding planning website, with “the”: KNOT
- Wedding exchange: IDOS
- Fourth-most-common surname in China (after Wang, Li and Zhang): LIU
- “Don’t get mad yet …”: LETMEEXPLAIN
- Marvel’s Maximoff: WANDA
- Entry fee for some clubs?: ANTE
- Blind worshipers: IDOLATERS
- Alternative to a pinch: Abbr.: TSP
- Journeys into the past?: MUSEUMTOURS
- Out of the question: IMPOSSIBLE
- Nasty, as a remark: SNIDE
- Busy signals, e.g.: TONES
- Kicks (out): BOOTS
- Cocktail vessel: GLASSTUMBLER
- Apt anagram of TINS BEAR THEM, minus an E: BREATHMINTS
- Dynamism: PEP
- Double ___ (cookie descriptor): STUF
- Replacement for the Spanish colonial real: PESO
- “One more minute!”: ALMOSTDONE
- They might fall off a shelf: BERGS
- Stigmatize sexual preferences, in modern lingo: KINKSHAME
- Fiasco: MESS
- Meiji and Taisho, in Japanese history: ERAS
- Middle-earth menace: ORC
- Heads, slangily: DOMES
- ___ cuisine: HAUTE
- Less expected: ODDER
- Line drawn after an early wrong guess in hangman: TORSO
- Part of a hat: BRIM
- Question that’s often a directive to step aside: MAYI
- Taskbar image: ICON
- A statue of him was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: ZEUS
- Prospective Olympic city’s campaign: BID
- Vitamin qty.: RDA
We hope this helps you tackle today’s crossword puzzle with ease. Good luck, and enjoy the challenge!