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 Stuff in Santa’s footprints : ASH
4 Exchanged for cash, in a way : PAWNED
10 West Coast wine valley : NAPA
14 Buffett or Cook, for short : CEO
15 Words after “Because” in a parent’s explanation : ISAYSO
16 “Metamorphoses” poet : OVID
17 A.F.C. South team (“Look in the lake! It’s … ah, never mind”) : TENNESSEETITANS
20 Triumphant shout : HOORAH
21 Spot for abs or apple seeds : CORE
22 Time spent in a seat : TERM
23 Investigative journalism (“What was that in the sea?! I must be imagining things”) : MUCKRAKING
28 Staggering this way and that : AREEL
30 Fe, to chemists : IRON
31 1/16 of a gallon : CUP
32 Napoleon Dynamite’s best friend : PEDRO
33 Asia’s disappearing ___ Sea : ARAL
34 Creates, as a goal : SETS
35 Imperial unit of volume (“There’s another one! I swear he just slipped into those trees …”) : CUBICFOOT
38 Agile : SPRY
41 Good old-fashioned butt-kicking : ROUT
42 Corporate emblems : LOGOS
46 Rage : IRE
47 Place for ham-handed workers? : DELI
48 Window dressing : DRAPE
49 Professional proofreader (“Over there, in the snow! That had to be something, right?!”) : COPYEDITOR
53 Frankenstein’s assistant : IGOR
54 Smooth-talking : GLIB
55 Life forms : BEINGS
57 Pseudoscientist investigating the “sightings” in this puzzle : CRYPTOZOOLOGIST
62 Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” : HATE
63 “Sign us up!” : WEREIN
64 Bear hair : FUR
65 Wally ___, “famous” cookie maker : AMOS
66 Bare minimums : LEASTS
67 “I didn’t need to hear all that!” : TMI
Down
1 Play a part, or a play part : ACT
2 “Now you listen to me …” : SEEHERE
3 Paid homage to : HONORED
4 Santa Monica tourist attraction : PIER
5 Silk-producing region of India : ASSAM
6 Sch. located in St. Louis, not Seattle : WASHU
7 Bill ___, the Science Guy : NYE
8 Compass heading : ESE
9 Pointillism mark : DOT
10 Against the rules : NOTOK
11 Greed : AVARICE
12 Pesto ingredient : PINENUT
13 Many website banners : ADS
18 What the ruthless show : NOMERCY
19 Declaration of determination : ICAN
22 Alternative to a swipe, for a credit card : TAP
24 Lecture tour : CIRCUIT
25 Company that merged with Heinz in 2015 : KRAFT
26 Caramel-filled candy : ROLO
27 Navigation aid that works through satellites, in brief : GPS
29 Gehrig in Cooperstown : LOU
33 Garlicky sauce : AIOLI
34 Saving for later : STORING
36 Born and ___ : BRED
37 Like Father Time : OLD
38 [not my mistake] : SIC
39 “Get with the ___!” : PROGRAM
40 Answer, as an email : REPLYTO
43 Purchase for a white elephant exchange : GAGGIFT
44 North America’s only marsupial : OPOSSUM
45 To be, in Spanish : SER
47 Money owed : DEBT
50 “Yowzers!” : YIPES
51 Orchestra woodwinds : OBOES
52 Ignited again : RELIT
56 They’re not free of charge : IONS
57 “___-ching!” : CHA
58 Pretentious friend of Winnie-the-Pooh : OWL
59 Last section in a dictionary : ZEE
60 ” … boy ___ girl?” : ORA
61 Numerical prefix that sounds like a verb : TRI
