The New York Times has a fantastic lineup of word games today, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword. But for many, the classic daily crossword puzzle still takes the crown. It’s packed with intriguing trivia, sharpens your mind, and gives you a little bragging right if you can finish it every day.
If you’re finding today’s NYT Crossword tricky, don’t worry—we’ve got all the answers for you below.
Today’s NYT Crossword Answers:
Across:
- Pathetic: SAD
- Sound hoarse: RASP
- 1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem: JAZZ
- Walk heavily: PLOD
- Concur with by repeating: ECHO
- Covered veranda often equipped with a ceiling fan: LANAI
- Exude, as confidence: OOZE
- Ergo: THUS
- Take in or take on: ADOPT
- 1970 novel exploring racism’s effect on a young girl’s self-esteem: THEBLUESTEYE
- One who dies for a cause: MARTYR
- Home for a queen: HIVE
- Modernizing prefix: NEO
- Road curve: ESS
- Like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” key-wise: ING
- 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance: TARBABY
- No later than: UNTIL
- Deep-dish pizza chain, informally: UNOS
- 1977 novel whose title references a lyrical Old Testament book: SONGOFSOLOMON
- Confer: LEND
- Collaborations like those on “Ella and Louis”: DUETS
- 1987 Pulitzer-winning novel about the haunting of a formerly enslaved family’s home: BELOVED
- Traitor: RAT
- It might welcome you home: MAT
- Backdrop for a shooting star: SKY
- Folk wisdom: LORE
- “Burning” feeling: DESIRE
- Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle: TONIMORRISON
- Clean up, as software: DEBUG
- Burkina ___: FASO
- Sound of a fall: THUD
- Shooting stars, some believe: OMENS
- Cache for cash: TILL
- Effortlessness: EASE
- 1973 novel set in “the Bottom,” a neighborhood slated to be demolished for a golf course: SULA
- ___ gin fizz: SLOE
- For each: PER
Down:
- Request in the weight room: SPOTME
- Kauai goodbyes: ALOHAS
- Earth-moving machines, informally: DOZERS
- Pick up again, as a book: RETURNTO
- Muscle misery: ACHE
- “Pipe down!”: SHUSH
- Sticky note: POSTIT
- Green gemstone: JADE
- “That’s ___-brainer”: ANO
- Heat in the microwave: ZAP
- Photo retoucher’s focus, perhaps: ZIT
- Something that can be racked up: DEBT
- Coat of paint: LAYER
- Telling tall tales: LYING
- #bestfriends4___: EVA
- iPod model: NANO
- Black, poetically: EBON
- Pained cries: OYS
- Looping animation file: GIF
- Mooches, as a cigarette: BUMS
- Overturn: UNDO
- Mind-altering drug: LSD
- Pursue: SEEK
- Just: ONLY
- Your and my: OUR
- Top billing: LEADROLE
- Furry swimmer: OTTER
- Scale units: Abbr.: LBS
- YouTube journals, essentially: VLOGS
- Very long time: EON
- Heaps of windblown snow: DRIFTS
- Unfortunate incident: MISHAP
- Make excited: AROUSE
- Sensitive to the touch: TENDER
- One might begin “Hope this finds you well”: EMAIL
- Construction area: SITE
- “Chicken of the sea”: TUNA
- World capital on the same latitude as Tallinn and Stockholm: OSLO
- Half of cuatro: DOS
- Australia’s tallest bird: EMU
- “The Fresh Prince of ___-Air”: BEL
