The New York Times offers a fantastic selection of word games today, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, and The Mini Crossword. However, the classic NYT Crossword still stands out as a fan favorite. It’s packed with intriguing trivia, boosts mental flexibility, and gives you some well-deserved bragging rights if you complete it every day.
Sometimes, the NYT Crossword can feel pretty challenging, but remember that solving crosswords is a skill that improves with practice. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t nail every clue.
If you’re struggling with today’s crossword puzzle, we’ve got you covered. Check out the answers for today’s clues below:
NYT Crossword Answers:
Across
- Rhyme of 49-Across, but not a homophone of 19-Across: BUFF
- On the ___: LAM
- Rhyme of 46-Across, but not a homophone of 21-Across: DOFF
- Key that might be part of a chain: ISLE
- Olay competitor: NIVEA
- Spaniard’s “other”: OTRA
- Opposite of hopping: DEAD
- Customer service worker: AGENT
- “Serves you right!”: GOOD
- Main branch of a tree: BOUGH
- It gets baked: DOUGH
- Take a break: REST
- Not on board with: ANTI
- Evaluate for purity: ASSAY
- Like Plan B, for short: OTC
- Wee: EENSY
- Marshland: FEN
- “___ Choice”: SOPHIES
- “Another sheep pun? ___ gotta be kidding!”: EWE
- Field for grazing: LEA
- Everglades wader: HERON
- Shade: HUE
- Gun-regulating grp.: ATF
- By way of: THROUGH
- I.C.U. staffers: RNS
- Attention-getting sound: COUGH
- Sounds of sympathy: AWS
- Uneven: ROUGH
- Conditional words: ORS
- Pacific ___: RIM
- Unfair outcome, informally: BUMDEAL
- Corkscrew-shaped pasta: FUSILLI
- A pop star might go by this: ONENAME
- Stay away (from): ABSTAIN
- Used as a platform: STOODON
- More timid: MOUSIER
- Rhyme of 19-Across, but not a homophone of 46-Across: COW
- Heavy-hearted: SAD
- Denver-to-Omaha dir.: ENE
- Rhyme of 43-Across, but not a homophone of 49-Across: RUE
Down
- Put in an offer: BID
- Avail: USE
- Exerciser’s target: FLAB
- Classic accessory for Humphrey Bogart: FEDORA
- Many a Gilbert and Sullivan work: LIGHTOPERA
- Park in N.Y.C., e.g.: AVE
- Untruthful: MENDACIOUS
- Pooch: DOGGIE
- “Conversely …,” in a text: OTOH
- Not to: FRO
- It doesn’t stay hot for long: FAD
- Keeps at: NAGS
- Lots: ATON
- Remedies for missed turns: UEYS
- Native Coloradans: UTES
- Insurer with an avian mascot: AFLAC
- Take care of: SEETO
- Real mess: SNAFU
- Rhyme of 21-Across, but not a homophone of 43-Across: THROW
- Leader who wrote “The Discovery of India”: NEHRU
- Totally shifted the momentum of: SWUNG
- “Hoo-boy!”: YEESH
- Exclamation of understanding: OHH
- Subj. taught by Fulbright scholars: ENG
- Clothing, colloquially: THREADS
- Serious workplace problem, for short: HRISSUE
- “Puh-lease!”: GODNO
- Leaves out: OMITS
- Island country that’s 24 hours ahead of its closest neighbor: SAMOA
- Apply, as sunscreen: RUBON
- Brownish pear: BOSC
- “Once more ___ the breach”: UNTO
- Communicate like a Sphynx: MEOW
- Give for a time: LEND
- “___ is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day”: Gabriel García Márquez: FAME
- Leopard’s spot: LAIR
- Place: LIEU
- Memo line: INRE