The New York Times offers a variety of word games to keep your mind sharp, from Wordle to Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword. But, for many, the classic NYT Crossword puzzle still holds the crown. It’s a fantastic way to test your trivia knowledge, improve your mental agility, and, of course, score some bragging rights when you complete it.
If you’re feeling stuck on today’s crossword, don’t worry! Solving these puzzles takes practice, and it’s okay if you can’t figure out every word right away. We’re here to help with today’s NYT Crossword answers.
NYT Crossword answers for today
Here are the clues and answers for today’s puzzle:
Across
- What jackknives can help to carve: ABS
- “That’s fair”: VALID
- Account of a wild night out?: TAB
- Fail, with “out”: CRAP
- Site sieged by Santa Anna: ALAMO
- Cross: SORE
- Cob, e.g.: MALE
- What’s often made by doctors: SIXFIGURES
- Together: ENMASSE
- Vacuous: INANE
- “Actually, forget I asked”: DONTANSWERTHAT
- Like meetings of the U.N. General Assembly: ANNUAL
- Group of zombies: HORDE
- Blowout: PARTY
- Gets high on a kite: PARASAILS
- Sch. in Ypsilanti whose mascot is an eagle, not another large bird: EMU
- Bad thing to be out of: SORTS
- Zip: NIL
- Extraterrestrial menace in 5-Down: XENOMORPH
- Comic Gillis: SHANE
- Murphy’s co-star in “48 Hrs.”: NOLTE
- Went after: CHASED
- Response to not getting the reference?: CITATIONNEEDED
- Put into effect: ENACT
- Sources of high-quality wool: ALPACAS
- Dynamic stance: ACTIONPOSE
- No more: GONE
- Went after, in a way: SUED
- At this point: SOFAR
- At some point: ONCE
- Make a gaffe: ERR
- How Vin Diesel was cast in “The Fast and the Furious,” you might say: APTLY
- Ottoman setting: DEN
Down
- Summit: ACME
- Dumpster or zipper, originally: BRANDNAME
- Boon for grizzly bears: SALMONRUN
- One doing the lord’s work: VASSAL
- Sci-fi franchise since 1979: ALIEN
- Laissez-faire: LAX
- Global lending org.: IMF
- Enthusiastic assent: DOI
- Numbers 1 through 36 are found in it: TORAH
- Where some banners are hung: ARENA
- Under siege: BESET
- Bit of foam, perhaps: PEANUT
- Beverage steeped in bright daylight: SUNTEA
- Encircles: GIRDS
- Not take off: STAY
- Improve, as an argument: SHARPEN
- Concern for an antiquer: WORTH
- They increase with blown saves, for short: ERAS
- Summit: APEX
- ___-Novo, capital of Benin: PORTO
- “Be right with you”: INASECOND
- Cotton-Eyed Joe, e.g.: LINEDANCE
- ___ dog: SLED
- Most arias: SOLI
- Tripping: ONACID
- Minnesota’s is French and California’s is Greek: MOTTO
- “Old ___,” country standard performed by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley: SHEP
- Attempted, with “at”: HADAGO
- Food that’s roughly 95% water: CELERY
- Halt: CEASE
- Rack up: INCUR
- Eyed food, informally: TATER
- Nosy?: NASAL
- A good way to feel: SEEN
- Org. whose official number of employees is unknown to the public: NSA
- Word with rock or Rocks: POP
- O’er and o’er: OFT
Good luck with your crossword!
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