The New York Times offers a variety of word games today — from Wordle to Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something to keep everyone entertained. But the standard crossword puzzle remains a classic favorite. It’s packed with intriguing trivia, helps sharpen your mind, and, of course, gives you bragging rights if you can finish it daily.
While the NYT Crossword can seem challenging at times, remember that solving it is a skill that improves with practice. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t complete every puzzle.
If you’re struggling with today’s NYT Crossword, we’ve got all the answers for you below.
NYT Crossword Answers for Today
Across:
- Election presence since the ’40s: PACS
- Retrieval speed of a computer: ACCESSTIME
- Latin I word: AMAT
- Professional pitcher?: PIANOTUNER (A playful take—“piano tuner” sounds like a professional pitcher but isn’t)
- Request for details: CARETOELABORATE
- What often can’t be beat?: THERAP (Short for “therapy”—therapy can’t be beaten as it helps with issues)
- Light touch: CARESS
- Minnesota W.N.B.A. team: LYNX
- Cousin voiced by Snoop Dogg in two films: ITT (Snoop Dogg voiced the character in “The Boss Baby” films)
- “Not ___”: YET
- Heaven: ECSTASY
- Meryl Streep and Amy Adams played them in 2008’s “Doubt”: NUNS
- French resort town: STTROPEZ (Short for Saint-Tropez)
- Unsolicited, in a way: ONSPEC (On specification or unsolicited)
- More than just impress: AWE
- Block: DAM
- Ref’s decision: TKO (Technical Knockout in boxing)
- Supply at an I.V.F. clinic: OVA
- Home run, informally: DINGER
- Ready: PREPARED
- Vet: EXGI (Short for “ex-girlfriend,” used playfully here)
- Word from the French for “rung”: ECHELON (French for level or rank, similar to a rung)
- Scott in Illinois, e.g.: Abbr.: AFB (Scott Air Force Base)
- Cultivate, in a way: HOE
- “Really?”: ITIS (Short for “It is?”)
- Last syllable of a word: ULTIMA
- Losers of the 1994 and 1999 N.B.A. Finals: KNICKS
- Virtually silently, in a classic poem: ONLITTLECATFEET (From Carl Sandburg’s “The Fog”)
- [shrug]: IDONTGETIT
- Helen of Troy’s mother: LEDA
- 1962 war epic loaded with A-listers, with “The”: LONGESTDAY
- Old map letters: USSR (Soviet Union, which appeared on old maps)
Down:
- Deal: PACT
- Title hero of a Menotti opera: AMAHL
- Drew using many lines?: CAREY (A pun—Carey as in drawing many lines)
- “Ambition should be made of ___ stuff”: “Julius Caesar”: STERNER
- Per person: APOP (A shorthand form for “a pop” or each)
- Abbr. in French business names: CIE (Société Anonyme in French)
- School with the mascot Oski the Bear, familiarly: CAL (University of California, Berkeley)
- Puts on the books: ENACTS
- Buckwheat noodle: SOBA
- Part of a child’s bedtime routine, perhaps: STORY
- Deep dishes: TUREENS
- Foggy: INASTUPOR
- M.L.B. team that’s played in three different stadiums since its inception in 1962: METS
- Old word of precedence: ERE
- It contains nearly 10,000 sections: TAXCODE
- Market unit: ITEM
- Looney Tunes menace, familiarly: TAZ
- Alley pickup: SPARE
- Sticks figure: YOKEL
- First name on the “Scream” poster: NEVE (Neve Campbell)
- Slew: SCAD
- Only African-born headliner at London’s Live Aid 1985: SADE
- Bar from Mars: TWIX
- Clothing misnomer more aptly replaced by “three-quart”: TENGALLON (Misnomer for hat size)
- Zero use: NOPOINT
- Stereotypical lowly role in a school play: TREE
- Christmas tradition: GIFTING
- ___-Nomenal, punny restaurant name: PHO (A play on “phenomenal” for a pho restaurant)
- Like some targeted winter meds: ANTIFLU
- Style of house with wide eaves: CHALET
- “S’il vous plaît,” across the Rhine: BITTE (German for “please”)
- Drinks mistakenly invented by a Dairy Queen owner in 1958: ICEES
- Agendas, for short: SKEDS
- Useful command for the error-prone: UNDO
- Many Zoom calls: Abbr.: MTGS (Meetings)
- Singer Perry: KATY
- Leading: STAR
- Peanut ___: OIL
- Going concern, for short?: ETD (Estimated Time of Departure)
- Jack Ryan’s org. in “The Hunt for Red October”: CIA
Use these answers to help complete today’s crossword and enjoy the challenge!
