The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging rights if you manage to finish it every day.
While the NYT puzzle might feel like an impossible task some days, solving a crossword is a skill and it takes practice — don’t get discouraged if you can’t get every single word in a puzzle.
If you’re having trouble completing today’s NYT Crossword, we’re here to help. We’ve got all the answers for today’s clues down below.
NYT Crossword answers today
Across
1 Frame job : SETUP
6 Joke teller : COMIC
11 Part of a baseball uniform : CAP
14 Without company : ALONE
15 “That’s ___!” (“Don’t do it!”) : ANONO
16 Brouhaha : ADO
17 Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups and fudge : MOOSETRACKS
19 The “N” of NDA : NON
20 Bathed, old-style : LAVED
21 Adverb that often precedes “possible” : HUMANLY
23 Actor Brody of “The Pianist” : ADRIEN
25 Classic Sichuan dish made with bean curd : MAPOTOFU
26 What the “Mona Lisa” is painted on : WOOD
27 Speaker’s platform : DAIS
29 Perched on : ATOP
30 Sense of self : EGO
31 Attorney general before Garland : BARR
32 Pickle container : JAR
34 What many junk foods contain … with a hint to the initials of 17-, 25-, 48- and 56-Across : EMPTYCALORIES
39 Father of a mule : ASS
40 When doubled, a Hawaiian fish : MAHI
41 Was up on points : LED
43 Place of bliss : EDEN
46 Manicured stretch of grass : LAWN
47 Frat party offering : BEER
48 Bite-size Mars candy, familiarly : MINITWIX
51 Like waters during a storm : CHOPPY
53 Place to store cocktail-making equipment : BARCART
54 Librarian’s reprimand : SHUSH
55 2001 boxing biopic : ALI
56 Fictional burrito on “Parks and Recreation” that “literally killed a guy last year” : MEATTORNADO
60 Director Jean-___ Godard : LUC
61 Violet variety : PANSY
62 Operating system whose logo features a penguin : LINUX
63 Dashboard fig. : MPH
64 Video chat service owned by Microsoft : SKYPE
65 Watched without intervening : SATBY
Down
1 America’s “Uncle” : SAM
2 Chess rating system : ELO
3 Hammer’s home : TOOLROOM
4 Not mentioned : UNSAID
5 Irk : PEEVE
6 One might be red or yellow in soccer : CARD
7 ___ whim : ONA
8 Chocolaty coffee orders : MOCHAS
9 Tattoo, colloquially : INKUP
10 Pink vodka drink : COSMO
11 Lacks the ability to : CANNOT
12 ___ Suárez, former prime minister who lends his name to Spain’s largest airport : ADOLFO
13 Fork over the cash : PONYUP
18 Amount of time for Kate Hudson to “Lose a Guy,” in a 2003 film : TENDAYS
22 Pong company : ATARI
23 Dazzle : AWE
24 Venetian magistrate of old : DOGE
25 “Pulp Fiction” studio : MIRAMAX
28 Curve : ARC
31 First K-pop band to perform at the American Music Awards : BTS
32 Actor who plays Lieutenant Sulu in the rebooted “Star Trek” films : JOHNCHO
33 The N.F.L.’s Cardinals, on scoreboards : ARI
35 Totally stress out : PANIC
36 What a bill may become : LAW
37 Animal that is unable to fly with its ears, regrettably : ELEPHANT
38 Slowly leak : SEEP
42 Not sweet, as wine : DRY
43 Mummify, e.g. : EMBALM
44 Way of getting online that might sound like “beep beep beeHAW beeHAW beeeeeep SHRHRHRHRH” : DIALUP
45 Fortify with nutrients : ENRICH
46 Pileup, as of complaints : LITANY
47 Neighbor of Croatia : BOSNIA
49 Packs (down) : TAMPS
50 Cause, as havoc : WREAK
52 Chucks : HURLS
54 Eye sore? : STYE
57 Baking amt. : TSP
58 Bestow knighthood on : DUB
59 Lead-in to -tocin : OXY