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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1 Workplace for a young Abraham Lincoln: BAR 4 Marine animal with distinctive eye patches: ORCA 8 Promote oneself: BOAST 13 Had beef, perhaps: ATE 14 Sport: WEAR 15 Writes with a point?: ETCHES 17 Selecting for a jury: IMPANELING 19 Nickname alternative to Teddy: THEO 20 Bash: FETE 21 “If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s ___, say goodnight!” (bear advice): WHITE 23 Vinyl records, slangily: WAX 24 Stinging jellyfish: SEANETTLE 26 North Dakota’s most populous city: FARGO 28 Epsilon follower: ZETA 29 They end in diciembre: ANOS 31 “Darn it!”: NUTS 32 Emphasis-providing suffix: ASS 33 Thick Japanese noodle: UDON 34 Words of protest: BUTS 35 “Who’s interested?” … or, phonetically, what four answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the answers next to them: ANYTAKERS 38 Get ready to fly: TAXI 40 Ancient Peruvian: INCA 41 “Also also …,” for short: PPS 44 Hefty read: TOME 45 “Dude!”: BRUH 46 Bareilles who wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway’s “Waitress”: SARA 47 Frank Sinatra’s reads “The best is yet
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