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 Early electric lights : ARCLAMPS

9 Modest home in Modesto, say : CASITA

15 Direct marketing tactic : COLDCALL

16 First act : OPENER

17 Sub’s reference : CLASSROOMROSTER

19 What always ends well? : ELS

20 Spendy : STEEP

21 ___ May Gaskin, author of “Spiritual Midwifery” : INA

22 Puzzle (out) : SUSS

24 Fly traps? : MITTS

25 Fed : GMAN

26 Ward off bad luck, in a Greek tradition : SPIT

27 Noted name in lithographs : IVES

28 English folk singer Billy : BRAGG

29 Inveigled : COAXED

31 Just so : TOATEE

32 They’re not afraid to take charge : FEARLESSLEADERS

35 Media-based learning sites, informally : AVLABS

36 Word on many “No Trespassing” signs : POSTED

37 Hanes brand once sold in ovoid packaging : LEGGS

38 90° : EAST

39 Team that briefly changed its name during the 1950s to appease McCarthyites : REDS

42 The case, so to speak : TRUE

43 Jumps from one foot to the other : JETES

44 Break off : STOP

45 Record company behind (and inside) Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play” : EMI

46 1988 Summer Olympics host : SEOUL

47 Word that’s a homophone of its middle letter : ARE

48 Spin right round? : ROTATECLOCKWISE

53 What might remove all of your problems? : ERASER

54 Went after : ASSAILED

55 Cleans up like the Pied Piper : DERATS

56 Band aids : SETLISTS

Down

1 What passwords unlock : ACCESS

2 Arrive curbside : ROLLUP

3 Andrés Segovia won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for it : CLASSICALGUITAR

4 Temple Square letters : LDS

5 Window installations, in brief : ACS

6 Sully : MAR

7 P, B, D, T, K and G : PLOSIVES

8 Kitchen flippers : SLOTTEDSPATULAS

9 De-centers? : CORES

10 Per : APOP

11 Its in French : SES

12 Juicy stuff : INTIMATEDETAILS

13 Outspoken parenting critic, maybe : TEENAGER

14 Sets up : ARRANGES

18 Subject of the 2021 documentary “Once Upon a Time in Queens” : METS

23 Cyber space? : STORAGE

24 Socializes : MIXES

25 Teaching assistants, often : GRADERS

28 Certain Thanksgiving dish : BOAT

30 Mass apparel : ALBS

31 Pilots, e.g. : TESTS

32 Had a hiccup : FALTERED

33 Till the end of time : EVERMORE

34 Doubly disadvantageous : LOSELOSE

38 Fair-hiring agcy. : EEOC

40 Home to England’s Jurassic Coast : DORSET

41 Fan settings : SPEEDS

43 Unhappy chorus : JEERS

46 Galley command : STET

49 Arkansas pol Hutchinson : ASA

50 New Orleans setting: Abbr. : CST

51 Carrier to 46-Across, for short : KAL

52 Device sold with a remote : WII






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