The New York Times offers a variety of word games, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, but the traditional daily crossword puzzle remains the favorite. This puzzle is filled with interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility, and provides a sense of accomplishment when completed.

Solving the NYT crossword can sometimes feel daunting, but don’t worry—practice makes perfect. If you’re struggling with today’s crossword, we’ve got you covered with all the answers below.

 

Today’s NYT Crossword Answers

Across

  1. MPG – “City/highway/combined” stat
  2. CATSPA – Pampering place for purring pets
  3. THE – Article that Ohio State University surprisingly managed to trademark in 2022
  4. ARES – Greek god often depicted with a helmet and shield
  5. FLAWED – Imperfect
  6. OOP – Alley-___ (basketball pass)
  7. TONYSOPRANO – Role for which James Gandolfini won three Emmys
  8. ETA – GPS approximation
  9. TBONE – Hearty steakhouse option
  10. HTTP – Start of an online address
  11. PHD – Common deg. for a professor
  12. HOV – Kind of lane marked with a diamond
  13. ADA – “___ Twist, Scientist” (kids’ book)
  14. ABROAD – Out of the country
  15. ENIGMA – Cipher machine of W.W. II
  16. PALOALTO – Silicon Valley city whose name translates to “tall stick”
  17. WOAH – “You just blew my mind,” using a modern spelling
  18. MAIL – Word after G or e
  19. HIDES – Gets ready to yell “Surprise!,” perhaps
  20. EVENTENOR – Stable temperament
  21. ATARI – Pioneer in arcade games
  22. TACO – Food with a shell
  23. IOTA – Tiny bit
  24. ROCKBASS – Freshwater fish named for its shoreline habitat
  25. PREFER – Have a predilection for
  26. TORIES – British Conservative Party, colloquially
  27. SEA – “Under the ___” (Oscar-winning song from “The Little Mermaid”)
  28. FAM – Close relatives, informally
  29. CON – Swindle
  30. THAN – “Easier said ___ done”
  31. NORMS – Standards
  32. SUB – Teacher’s cover
  33. CHORALGROUP – What the ends of 17-, 31-, 37- and 48-Across are, collectively
  34. PTA – School fund-raising grp.
  35. UMPIRE – One who’s always calling people out?
  36. CASA – Ken’s Mojo Dojo ___ House (redundantly named dwelling in “Barbie”)
  37. YET – Until now
  38. BASALT – About 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth
  39. DAN – Novelist Brown

Down

  1. MATTHEW – Actor Macfadyen of “Succession”
  2. PROBONO – Like some free legal work
  3. GENOVIA – Fictional country in “The Princess Diaries”
  4. CFO – Corp. money manager
  5. ALPHA – Dominant wolf in a pack
  6. TART – Fruit-filled pastry
  7. SWAT – Give a thwack
  8. PENPAL – What a best friend from camp might become
  9. ADO – Hullabaloo
  10. TOEHOLD – Rock climber’s notch
  11. HOTDATE – Promising romantic encounter
  12. EPA – Clean air org.
  13. SYN – Thesaurus entry: Abbr.
  14. SEAM – Layer of coal
  15. PRAIRIE – Wide-open grassland
  16. DAME – Title for Julie Andrews or Maggie Smith
  17. BOHO – ___ chic (fashion style)
  18. DOS – Cinco menos tres
  19. GHERKIN – Pickle, to a Brit
  20. PITAS – Shawarma holders
  21. ALEC – Guinness of “Star Wars”
  22. ANTS – Grasshoppers’ foes in “A Bug’s Life”
  23. VIBE – General feeling
  24. NOPE – “Hard pass”
  25. ART – Word in the name of many design colleges
  26. TOOCUTE – “So adorbs!”
  27. ACROBAT – One getting bent out of shape at work?
  28. OFFROAD – Where to ride ATVs and dirt bikes
  29. TEAMUSA – Simone Biles’s squad
  30. ARMSPAN – Length from fingertip to fingertip, perhaps
  31. ASTHMA – Reason to carry an inhaler
  32. RANG – Used, as a doorbell
  33. SNARL – Tangle
  34. HOPS – Hillsboro ___, minor-league baseball team with a mascot named Barley
  35. ARIA – Opera solo
  36. ORC – Fearsome Middle-earth creature
  37. SPY – Do some snooping
  38. CUB – Pup: otter :: ___ : bear
  39. LET – Permit
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