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NYT Crossword: answers for Thursday, January 30

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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.

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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.

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NYT Crossword answers today

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Across

1 First U.S. prez to be born outside the original 13 Colonies : ABE
4 Airport transports : VANS
8 The film “Airplane!,” e.g. : FARCE
13 Cry in a horror film : RUN
14 Challenge for an interpreter, perhaps : IDIOM
16 Result of a leadoff walk : ONEON
17 “Sic vita ___” (“Such is life”) : EST
18 Mercenary : SOLDIEROFFORTUNE
20 DEF, on a phone : THREE
22 Bemoan : LAMENT
23 Groundbreaking medical procedure first accomplished in 1967 : HEARTTRANSPLANT
27 Region bordering India and China in Risk : SIAM
29 Nestlé Purina PetCare brand : ALPO
30 Level : RAZE
31 Only about 10% of Americans have one : OUTIE
32 Tiny bit : SPECK
34 Shakers in the woods : ASPENS
35 Suffix with social : IST
38 Focus of a product development test : USERRESEARCH
40 Govt. agency for retirees : SSA
41 They might sound the alarm : THEFTS
43 In-the-works software versions : BETAS
45 Score endings : CODAS
46 El ___ : PASO
47 Caresses : PATS
51 “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” police captain : HOLT
52 Has a clouded mind : CANTSEESTRAIGHT
54 Append : TACKON
56 Turn left or right, say : STEER
57 Uncertainties of life … or a feature of four answers in this puzzle? : UPSANDDOWNS
61 Supermodel Carangi : GIA
62 Personal style : TASTE
63 Throat lozenge additive : ANISE
64 This is “plagiarism or revolution,” per Gauguin : ART
65 Emerged : AROSE
66 Walks, for one : STAT
67 Anti-vaping ad, e.g. : PSA

Down

1 Singer with the 1972 album “Young, Gifted and Black,” informally : ARETHA
2 Quantity on a farm : BUSHEL
3 Catch : ENTRAP
4 Clamps in a shop : VISES
5 Big fuss : ADO
6 Zip : NIL
7 Cover some ground? : SOD
8 1040, e.g. : FORM
9 Pays for a hand : ANTESUP
10 Connects with an ex, e.g. : REUNITES
11 Holds within : CONTAINS
12 Suffix with methyl : ENE
15 Children’s author who wrote “And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey” : MILNE
19 Work on a sub? : EAT
21 Grandson of Eve : ENOS
24 Newspapers, collectively : PRESS
25 Delicate fabric : LACE
26 Fictional prison guarded by Dementors : AZKABAN
28 Canyonlands National Park feature : MESA
31 Division of the Dept. of Labor : OSHA
33 Plunks (down) : PUTS
34 Pidgeon, Hawke or Crowe : ACTOR
35 Rash reaction? : ITCH
36 Play a bogey-free round, maybe : SHOOTPAR
37 TV character who said “Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing” : TEDLASSO
39 Chillax : REST
42 Deep-pocketed types : FATCATS
44 Stick at a roast : SPIT
46 Zoo Atlanta’s Lun Lun or Yang Yang : PANDA
48 Separation in some relationships? : AGEGAP
49 Possible answer to “Whose?” : THEIRS
50 Rock layers : STRATA
52 Cousin of a haddock : COD
53 One can be fixed or liquid : ASSET
55 Base for a proposal? : KNEE
57 Hagen in the American Theater Hall of Fame : UTA
58 Switch positions : ONS
59 Cleverness : WIT
60 U.S. org. that operates a cryptology museum in Maryland : NSA
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