The New York Times has a smorgasbord of word games to tickle your brain cells today—Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, just to name a few. Yet, the classic daily crossword puzzle remains the crowning jewel. Packed with quirky trivia and mind-bending clues, it not only flexes your mental muscles but also gives you bragging rights if you manage to solve it.
Now, tackling the NYT crossword might feel like scaling Everest on some days, but remember, crossword-solving is an acquired skill that gets sharper with practice. Don’t throw in the towel if you can’t nail every word.
Struggling with today’s NYT Crossword? Fear not! We’ve got the answers for all today’s clues right below.
NYT Crossword Answers Today
Across
- Word following “push-up” that anagrams to a word following “pull-up”: BRA
- Become subject to: INCUR
- Israeli desert: NEGEV
- Substance in a bagel-making “bath”: LYE
- Wedding role … or a description of 114-Across?: RINGBEARER
- Artist’s diagram … or one of five for 114-Across?: COLORWHEEL
- Multipiece furniture purchases: OTTOMANSETS
- “Hold up!”: WAIT
- Get hooked?: TAKETHEBAIT
- ___ Rizal, national hero of the Philippines: JOSE
- Cornhole attempts: TOSSES
- Compete like Sha’Carri Richardson: RUN
- Snapple competitor: NESTEA
- Detailed plan of action: BLUEPRINT
- Malevolent sorcery: BLACKMAGIC
- Restaurant chain with an avian mascot: REDROBIN
- Lamb’s lament: BAA
- M.D. spaces: ERS
- One way to throw a baseball: SIDEARM
- Aptly named writers’ association: PEN
- “Uno ___!”: MAS
- Resting places: INNS
- Just scratches the surface?: ETCHES
- Teletubby with a repetitive name: LAALAA
- Very now: CHIC
- Musical composition like the Gauri in Sikh tradition: RAGA
- Obsolescent book: YELLOWPAGES
- Brand in the frozen food section: GREENGIANT
- Dance related to the Tongan tau’olunga: HULA
- Worst of the worst: DREGS
- Reason to award two gold medals: TIE
- Cheers, for one: BAR
- Letters after Lucasfilm: LTD
- Aid in seafloor mapping: SONAR
- Understood: SAW
- Balance beam gripper: TOE
- Round up at the start?: PRELIMS
- “There it is!”: AHA
- Prereq for a Ph.D. program, maybe: GRE
- Signature hit for Linda Ronstadt: BLUEBAYOU
- Supreme pizza topping: BLACKOLIVE
- “Danger! Danger!”: REDALERT
- Number for a letter?: RENT
- Power sources for some electric cars: FUELCELLS
- “Goodness me!”: ISAY
- Spice up, say: SEASON
- “___ out!”: YER
- Concerning egg cells: OVULAR
- Bother, with “at”: GNAW
- Results of some fouls in soccer: YELLOWCARDS
- What has a lot of room to grow?: GREENHOUSE
- Playbill listing: CAST
- Character appearing twice in “Dumb and Dumber”?: SILENTB
- Broadway passage: AISLE
- Move up: ADVANCE
- Chain that offers obedience training classes: PETCO
- This puzzle’s subject: OLYMPICFLAG
- Fried rice add-in: ONION
- “Drink,” so to speak: OCEAN
- They “wait for no man,” in a saying: TIMEANDTIDE
- ___ law (P = IV): WATTS
- Certain coastal fliers: TERNS
- “Uhh … no thanks”: PASS
- Scottish word in a holiday song: SYNE
- Shade of gray: SLATE
Down
- Penciled-in feature, perhaps: BROW
- Poet Dove: RITA
- Prefix with war or hero: ANTI
- Pioneer in computer chess: IBM
- Largest labor union in the U.S., in brief: NEA
- Sloping surfaces: CANTS
- Alpha ___ Majoris (star in the Big Dipper): URSAE
- Smacks (of): REEKS
- “Oppenheimer” director: NOLAN
- Carl’s wife in Pixar’s “Up”: ELLIE
- Sources of cashmere: GOATS
- Make a big splash in diving, say: ERR
- Bugs, e.g.: VWS
- Brick that doesn’t require mortar: LEGO
- Hankerings: YENS
- Failing that: ELSE
- Crime boss John: GOTTI
- Way shortened?: RTE
- What corn holders are inserted into: COB
- Muslim head covering: HIJAB
- Prized violins, for short: STRADS
- One of the stages of grief: DENIAL
- Ultra-famous: HUGE
- Inside lane on a track: ONE
- Ailment whose name becomes an actress when its vowel is doubled: STREP
- Indulge (oneself): TREAT
- Forever and ever: EON
- Like some Mideast nationalism: PANARAB
- Cattle-driving dispute: RANGEWAR
- Architect ___ van der Rohe: MIES
- Rock climber’s handhold: CRAG
- What “Meow!” might mean: IMHUNGRY
- Manicurist’s creation: NAILART
- They fly somewhere over the rainbow: BLUEBIRDS
- Democratic stronghold: BLUESTATE
- Ostracized family member: BLACKSHEEP
- Extorts from, in a way: BLACKMAILS
- Raccoonlike mammal of China: REDPANDA
- Phenomenon allegorized in “The Crucible”: REDSCARE
- Droop: SAG
- Movie f/x: CGI
- It’s not long: LAT
- ___ Oyu, sixth-highest peak in the world: CHO
- National park since 1872: YELLOWSTONE
- Milquetoast: YELLOWBELLY
- Character who’s told “We’re all mad here”: ALICE
- Creedence Clearwater Revival song named after a place “where cool water flows”: GREENRIVER
- Dip made from tomatillos: GREENSALSA
- Beat at an audition, maybe: OUTACT
- Sushi eggs: ROE
- Spice Girl Chisholm, casually: MEL
- Acclaimed: HAILED
- Political slogan of the 2000s: YESWECAN
- Channel that gets audio only?: EARCANAL
- Backing: FOR
- Connection at Frankfurt Airport?: UND
- Restroom in a pub: LOO
- “Law & Order” spinoff, for short: SVU
- Wooden shoe: SABOT
- Linguist’s concern: USAGE
- Part of a woman’s anatomy named for Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg: GSPOT
- Jane Eyre, to the villainous Mrs. Reed: NIECE
- Change, as one’s clothes: ALTER
- “The ___ true for …”: SAMES
- Not at all light: HEFTY
- Soul singer Baker: ANITA
- Adam of TV’s “Severance”: SCOTT
- Like the atmosphere after an awkward joke: TENSE
- Negative Nancy words?: NONS
- Hoppy choices at happy hour: IPAS
- Sermon topic: SIN
- Some TV screens: LCDS
- They may be renewed: VOWS
- Flirty thing to bite: LIP
- Sumac a.k.a. the “Peruvian Songbird”: YMA
- Maya who designed the Museum of Chinese in America: LIN
- Juice bar suffix: ADE
