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If you’re working through today’s New York Times Crossword but finding yourself stuck, don’t worry—you’re not alone! Crosswords can be tricky, and getting every clue is part of the challenge. Below are the answers for today’s crossword, so you can keep your streak alive and improve your solving skills.
NYT Crossword Answers for Today
Across
- HELM – Wheel’s place on a ship
- PAIR – It beats a high card but nothing else
- ROSA – Activist Parks
- MALIA – Elder Obama daughter
- EZRA – New York Times opinion writer Klein
- EPIC – The “Iliad,” for one
- THESIS STATEMENT – Sentence that often appears in the first paragraph of an essay
- VAN – Mover’s vehicle
- NIKE – Shoe brand named for a Greek goddess
- TANKS – Loses on purpose, as an N.B.A. team
- SANITY CHECK – Quick confirmation of feasibility
- KIDS – Jokes around
- AMHERST – Massachusetts college town
- STALE – Overused and uncreative
- PALM – Part of the hand
- SEMI – Kinda
- LUG – Carry (around)
- ACID TAB – Dose for an LSD trip
- TOM – Jerry’s foe in old cartoons
- ANAL – Fastidious to a fault
- ALAS – “Sadly …”
- OF AGE – Old enough
- VANILLA – Classic ice cream order
- TORI – Doughnut shapes
- BUFFALO BILL – Football player in upstate New York
- CAMEL – Animal in “Happy hump day!” memes
- SIRI – iPhone assistant
- SOU – Not worth a ___
- YOU’LL PAY FOR THIS – Cry from someone seeking revenge … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 22-, 37- and 49-Across
- ANTE – Poker buy-in
- DIET – A panda’s is 99% bamboo
- DRONE – Remote-controlled flier
- NEED – Must have
- ARTS – The “A” of M.F.A.
- SIPS – Little drinks
Down
- HAHAS – Laughing sounds
- ELENA KAGAN – Supreme Court justice appointed by Barack Obama
- LIS – Fleur-de-___
- MAIN IDEA – Key point
- PESKY – Irksome
- AZTEC – Empire whose capital city was Tenochtitlán
- IRA – NPR host Glass
- RAT – Tattle (on)
- REMAKES – 2023’s “Fatal Attraction” and “The Little Mermaid”
- OPEN – Word before ended, handed or minded
- SINK – Drop in the ocean?
- ACTS – Laws passed by Congress
- MTV – Cable channel that first showed “Beavis and Butt-head”
- SITS – Plops oneself down
- ETCH – ___ A Sketch (classic toy)
- NIL – Zilch
- HALTS – Ceases
- EMMA – Actress Watson
- RETAIL SHOP – Mom-and-pop store, e.g.
- SMOG – Pollution that can change the colors of a sunset
- TIME – Stat of interest to a competitive crossword solver
- SLAV – Balkan native
- TUNA – Yellowfin or bluefin
- PILAF – Rice dish
- ADA – Early computer scientist Lovelace
- CALF – Baby cow
- BOO BIRDS – Loud and unhappy sports fans, in slang
- LIBELED – Defamed in print
- FRI – Sat. preceder
- LULL – Temporarily calm period
- TORO – Spanish bull
- AS YET – Thus far
- LIFTS – Pumps iron at the gym
- LOINS – Some cuts of pork
- CYAN – The “C” of a printer’s CMYK
- A ONE – Top-notch
- MUTE – Button to press when stepping away from a Zoom meeting
- USE – Employ
- PDA – Kissing on the street, e.g., for short
- AIR – It’s almost 80% nitrogen
- TRI – Quadri- minus one
Now you’re all set! Keep practicing, and you’ll get better at solving these puzzles in no time.