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The New York Times offers a rich array of word games to keep everyone engaged—whether you’re into Wordle, Connections, Strands, or the Mini Crossword, there’s something to challenge and entertain. But for many fans, the daily crossword still holds the crown. Packed with fascinating trivia, the crossword challenges your mental flexibility and grants that unbeatable sense of achievement when you manage to solve it.
Crossword-solving is a skill, though, and if you’re struggling with today’s NYT puzzle, it’s totally normal! With practice, you’ll notice improvement, so don’t be discouraged if you don’t fill in every square right away.
Today’s NYT Crossword Solution
Need some help to finish today’s puzzle? Here’s a rundown of the answers to today’s clues.
Across
- Hotel room staple: TVSET
- “Hound Dog” singer Big ___ Thornton: MAMA
- Freshly pressed grapes before fermentation: MUST
- Way: ROUTE
- Reality show winner since 2002: IDOL
- Bridge piece: IBAR
- Spotted, in a way: ACNED
- Meaning of a finger wag: NOPE
- Zip: NONE
- People to hang out with: PALS
- Mood: VIBE
- Fish whose egg casings are called “mermaid’s purses”: SKATE
- Oslo Accords signatory, for short: PLO
- Fail to tail: LOSE
- Not spent anymore: RESTED
- Two-time Oscar nominee Joan: CUSACK
- Go no further: HALT
- “We’ll let ourselves in”: DONTWAITUPFORUS
- Medical breakthrough of 1954 that yielded a Nobel Prize: ORGANTRANSPLANT
- Masters of bad impersonations?: IDENTITYTHIEVES
- Pub fixtures: LOOS
- Takes root: SETSIN
- Incite: URGEON
- Tony winner Judith: IVEY
- Letters on a Busch Stadium hat: STL
- She played Julia in 2009’s “Julie & Julia”: MERYL
- Cut and polish, maybe: EDIT
- Big bird: RHEA
- Two shakes: ASEC
- Spin out on the ice?: AXEL
- Reasons for some street closures: FAIRS
- In ___ (unmoved): SITU
- Birthstone that begins with the same letter as its month: OPAL
- “ER” actress Laura: INNES
- Go berserk: SNAP
- Slim winning margin: NOSE
- Quite the party: BIGDO
Down
- Name on the playbill for the 1936 Salzburg Festival: TRAPP
- One of a singing duo?: VOCALCORD
- Solarium: SUNLOUNGE
- Périodes chaudes de l’année: ETES
- With 43-Down, fictional coach of AFC Richmond: TED
- Skimpy garments: MINISKIRTS
- Building block: ADOBE
- Brood: MOPE
- Drink mentioned four times in the prologue of “The Canterbury Tales”: ALE
- Deluxe wraps?: MINKSTOLES
- Menace in “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania”: UBOAT
- “À votre ___!”: SANTE
- Out on a limb, say: TREED
- Calling: VOCATION
- Something to wallow in: SELFPITY
- Spade, for one: LAWNTOOL
- Naughty list?: RAPSHEET
- Vessel that hasn’t crossed the Canadian border since 1993: STANLEYCUP
- The so-called “Rocket City” of the South: HUNTSVILLE
- Emphatic agreement: DOI
- When doubled, a pop nickname: TAY
- Gorgeous: RAVISHING
- Not yet explored, as a tomb: UNENTERED
- Map abbrs.: STS
- Where Dr. J played college hoops, for short: UMASS
- Amber, e.g.: RESIN
- Van Susteren of TV news: GRETA
- They might be bright: IDEAS
- See 5-Down: LASSO
- National, formerly: EXPO
- Asian royal: RANI
- Chicago’s ___ Center, formerly known as the Amoco Building: AON
- Small invention: FIB
Good luck with tomorrow’s puzzle! And remember, the more you play, the sharper your skills will get!
