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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1 Penalty assessors: REFS 5 “Be that way!”: FINE 9 Black Friday destination: MALL 13 Touch-tone phone abbr.: OPER 17 Anatomical part from the Latin for “grape”: UVEA 18 Mashhad’s country: IRAN 19 Portrayer of Mrs. Smith in 2005’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”: JOLIE 20 Cheer for a diva: BRAVA 21 Filipino meat dish: BEEFADOBO 23 Sumatran swinger: ORANG 24 Shoelace protector: AGLET 25 Citrusy breakfast treat: LEMONSCONE 26 Sue Bird or Larry Bird: BASKETBALLSTAR 28 Part of a certain chain: DAISY 30 Sound from a cappuccino maker: HISS 32 Tikka masala go-with: NAAN 33 The Tabard, in “The Canterbury Tales”: INN 34 Echelon: TIER 38 Former roles for Kamala Harris and Arlen Specter, for short: DAS 39 Component of an old PC tower: CDDRIVE 42 Avocado toast topper, perhaps: EGG 43 Like the main character in “Memento”: AMNESIC 45 Pension alternative, in brief: IRA 46 ___ Dingbats (icon-filled font): ZAPF 48 Layer of a 42-Across: HEN 49 Hardly any: NOTALOT 50 Paging device: BEEPER 53 One may be called on to give, informally: ALUM 55 Queequeg’s figurine in “Moby-Dick,” Read more on digitaltrends.com

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