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

  1. What jackknives can help to carve: ABS
  2. “That’s fair”: VALID
  3. Account of a wild night out?: TAB
  4. Fail, with “out”: CRAP
  5. Site sieged by Santa Anna: ALAMO
  6. Cross: SORE
  7. Cob, e.g.: MALE
  8. What’s often made by doctors: SIXFIGURES
  9. Together: ENMASSE
  10. Vacuous: INANE
  11. “Actually, forget I asked”: DONTANSWERTHAT
  12. Like meetings of the U.N. General Assembly: ANNUAL
  13. Group of zombies: HORDE
  14. Blowout: PARTY
  15. Gets high on a kite: PARASAILS
  16. Sch. in Ypsilanti whose mascot is an eagle, not another large bird: EMU
  17. Bad thing to be out of: SORTS
  18. Zip: NIL
  19. Extraterrestrial menace in 5-Down: XENOMORPH
  20. Comic Gillis: SHANE
  21. Murphy’s co-star in “48 Hrs.”: NOLTE
  22. Went after: CHASED
  23. Response to not getting the reference?: CITATIONNEEDED
  24. Put into effect: ENACT
  25. Sources of high-quality wool: ALPACAS
  26. Dynamic stance: ACTIONPOSE
  27. No more: GONE
  28. Went after, in a way: SUED
  29. At this point: SOFAR
  30. At some point: ONCE
  31. Make a gaffe: ERR
  32. How Vin Diesel was cast in “The Fast and the Furious,” you might say: APTLY
  33. Ottoman setting: DEN

Down

  1. Summit: ACME
  2. Dumpster or zipper, originally: BRANDNAME
  3. Boon for grizzly bears: SALMONRUN
  4. One doing the lord’s work: VASSAL
  5. Sci-fi franchise since 1979: ALIEN
  6. Laissez-faire: LAX
  7. Global lending org.: IMF
  8. Enthusiastic assent: DOI
  9. Numbers 1 through 36 are found in it: TORAH
  10. Where some banners are hung: ARENA
  11. Under siege: BESET
  12. Bit of foam, perhaps: PEANUT
  13. Beverage steeped in bright daylight: SUNTEA
  14. Encircles: GIRDS
  15. Not take off: STAY
  16. Improve, as an argument: SHARPEN
  17. Concern for an antiquer: WORTH
  18. They increase with blown saves, for short: ERAS
  19. Summit: APEX
  20. ___-Novo, capital of Benin: PORTO
  21. “Be right with you”: INASECOND
  22. Cotton-Eyed Joe, e.g.: LINEDANCE
  23. ___ dog: SLED
  24. Most arias: SOLI
  25. Tripping: ONACID
  26. Minnesota’s is French and California’s is Greek: MOTTO
  27. “Old ___,” country standard performed by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley: SHEP
  28. Attempted, with “at”: HADAGO
  29. Food that’s roughly 95% water: CELERY
  30. Halt: CEASE
  31. Rack up: INCUR
  32. Eyed food, informally: TATER
  33. Nosy?: NASAL
  34. A good way to feel: SEEN
  35. Org. whose official number of employees is unknown to the public: NSA
  36. Word with rock or Rocks: POP
  37. O’er and o’er: OFT

Good luck with your crossword!

TOPICS: NYT Crossword