The New York Times offers a variety of word games today, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, so there’s something for everyone. However, the classic crossword puzzle remains the most popular. It’s packed with fascinating trivia, helps boost mental agility, and gives you bragging rights if you manage to complete it daily.
Solving the NYT crossword can sometimes feel daunting, but it’s a skill that improves with practice. Don’t get discouraged if you can’t fill in every word just yet.
If you’re stuck on today’s NYT Crossword, we’re here to assist. Below, you’ll find the answers to today’s clues.
NYT Crossword Answers for Today
Across
- Indy 500 directive: STARTYOURENGINES
- Epiphany that precedes a major change: COMETOJESUSMOMENT
- Neon sign outside a motel: NOVACANCY
- Bit of roofing: TILE
- Like some mobile-device purchases: INAPP
- “My dudes!”: BROS
- Actor Omar: EPPS
- Sticks firmly: GLUES
- Name on an AAdvantage credit card: CITI
- Bit of flight info: ETA
- Cheer of encouragement: OLE
- Siren’s setting: SEA
- Tetanus, by another name: LOCKJAW
- Group of assets?: SPYRING
- Orthodontic device: SPACER
- Excessive: TOOTOO
- One on a mission: ASTRONAUT
- “What’s up?” in text shorthand: HOWRU
- Charlottesville sch.: UVA
- Major faults: RIFTS
- Words of commitment: IDO
- Part of a neural network: SYNAPSE
- Portion: LOT
- New Jersey borough known for its shopping malls: PARAMUS
- A long, long way back: EONSAGO
- The green light in “The Great Gatsby,” for one: SYMBOL
- Generational divide: AGEGAP
- Depositing checks with one’s phone, say: HOMEBANKING
- Quartz-filled rock: GEODE
- Small change in party parity?: ANI
- Like many bars during happy hour: NOISY
- Harold who composed “Over the Rainbow”: ARLEN
- “Gross!”: ICK
- Muppet with a distinctive snickering laugh: ERNIE
- Port in western France: BREST
- Caustic cleaner: LYE
- Carl who wrote “Cosmos”: SAGAN
Down
- Fortifies: STEELS
- First-rate: TIPTOP
- Domesticated relative of the vicuña: ALPACA
- “Hi” follower: RES
- An “e-” one was first developed in 2003, for short: CIG
- Barely simmering, say: ONLOW
- Badly rough up: MAUL
- Olympic weapons: EPEES
- Festoons with bathroom tissue, informally: TPS
- Oldest major TV network in the U.S.: NBC
- Question that casts doubt: ORISIT
- Say “nay”: VOTENO
- Popular Italian cheese: ASIAGO
- Classic Chrysler: KCAR
- “___ is long, life is short” (Greek aphorism): ART
- Org. that might organize a book fair: PTA
- Indian flatbread: ROTI
- Routes down a ski mountain: RUNS
- Products of oogenesis: OVA
- Scruff: NAPE
- Where one’s hands are placed at the end of the macarena: HIPS
- Anita of jazz: ODAY
- Portal represented by each pair of circled letters in this puzzle: WORMHOLE
- Losing steam: FLAGGING
- Word repeated in an “Animal House” chant: TOGA
- “Enough!”: STOP
- Wintry season: YULE
- Enjoy a bath: SOAK
- Houses: ABODES
- Title with a tilde: SENORA
- Back out unexpectedly: BAIL
- Figure in the Louvre’s “Winged Victory of Samothrace”: NIKE
- “Gift” that can be annoying to others: GAB
- Transgress: ERR
- One-named pop singer with hits such as “Elastic Heart” and “The Greatest”: SIA
- Hunger or thirst: YEN
