The New York Times offers a great variety of word games today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone. However, the classic crossword puzzle still stands out as the favorite. Packed with intriguing trivia, it helps boost mental agility and gives you major bragging rights if you can complete it daily.
Even though the NYT crossword can sometimes feel like a real brain-buster, don’t get discouraged. Solving crosswords is a skill that improves with practice, so it’s perfectly normal to struggle with some clues.
If today’s NYT Crossword is giving you a hard time, we’re here to lend a hand. Here are the answers for today’s puzzle:
Across
- STUBHUB – Ticketmaster alternative
- TECHIES – Some experts on viruses
- PIERONE – Longtime home decor chain with a name that anagrams to PIONEER
- RERINSE – Clean again, as hair
- ALFALFA – Plant with edible sprouts
- ONATEAR – Piling up wins
- STANDIN – Substitute
- MINISUB – Small vessel in the deep ocean
- DOTS – Symbols of an in-progress text
- PEET – Alfred for whom a coffee chain is named
- JOANN – Fabrics retailer
- OBESE – Like Brendan Fraser’s character in “The Whale”
- OSHEA – ___ Jackson a.k.a. Ice Cube
- ATM – Where you might put in dough and take out bread?
- PIDAY – 3/14
- CLAWMACHINEGAME – Joystick-controlled contraption depicted in this puzzle
- KOS – Results of some hard punches, for short
- INDYCAR – Speedway racer
- MED – ___ school
- WNYC – Radio station that produces “Radiolab”
- ATAD – Ever so slightly
- ICEHUT – Shed on a frozen lake
- UTURNS – Complete reversals
- CAROTID – Neck artery
- IRONOUT – Smooth over
- AMUSEMENTARCADE – Setting for a 35-Across
- RIPE – Ready to eat
- EMAIL – Medium for many newsletters
- ERIN – N.F.L. reporter Andrews
- EST – Suffix with winning or losing
- OPS – Biz ___ (corporate team, informally)
- SET – Collector’s goal
Down
- SPAS – Purveyors of wellness packages
- TILT – Pinball infraction
- UEFA – Soccer org. that runs the Champions League
- BRANDNEW – Never-before-seen
- HOLDONAMINUTE – “Wait!” … or hopeful words while playing a 35-Across?
- UNFIT – Not suited (for)
- BEANS – “Cool ___!”
- TROMP – Walk heavily
- EENIE – Start of a counting rhyme
- CRANEOPERATOR – Professional who might expect to do well with a 35-Across?
- HITITBIG – Achieve great success
- INES – Spanish form of Agnes
- ESAU – Genesis brother
- SERB – N.B.A. star Nikola Jokic, for one
- JOCK – Athletic type
- OSLO – Capital of Norway
- AHAS – Moments of sudden understanding
- EDAM – Cheese from North Holland
- SAME – “___ Love,” 2012 song that became a marriage equality anthem
- EYED – Sized up
- ACDC – Kind of inverter in an electric vehicle
- THY – “Your” of yore
- MICA – Flaky rock
- ANYTIME – “Always happy to help!”
- NATURAL – Like an Afro hairstyle
- WHOSE – Possessive that’s often confused with a contraction
- DUNCE – Simpleton
- ICARE – “Does it look like ___?”
- CAMIS – Tops that often have spaghetti straps, for short
- ERUPT – Blow one’s stack
- ROARS – Loud bursts of laughter
- NUDIE – Fashion designer Cohn with an eponymous rhinestone-encrusted suit
- STENT – Blood vessel insert
- DEMO – Showcase
- ITIS – “That so?”
- NAP – Bit of shut-eye
