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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.
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.
1 Take a chill pill : RELAX
6 Welsh dog breed : CORGI
11 “Yuck!” : EWW
14 Self-evident truth : AXIOM
15 Spheres of study : AREAS
16 July-August zodiac sign : LEO
17 Personal bidding, in an idiom : BECKANDCALL
19 Part of a train … or an alternative to one : CAR
20 ___ Scurry, first Black woman in the National Soccer Hall of Fame : BRIANA
21 Museum info displayer : PLACARD
23 Wee, informally : ITTY
24 ___ Moines, Iowa : DES
27 Take ___ (catch some Z’s) : ANAP
28 Who went “up the hill” in a nursery rhyme : JACKANDJILL
32 Glass fragment : SHARD
36 Suspend : HALT
37 Great Plains tribe : OTOE
38 Speaking and pointing at objects, in a game of charades : NONOS
39 Mel in the Baseball Hall of Fame : OTT
40 High-fives, basically : SLAPS
41 Actor Guinness : ALEC
42 Ooze : SEEP
43 Spanish babies : NENES
44 Two-player offensive sequence in basketball : PICKANDROLL
47 Instructional talk at an expo, informally : DEMO
48 Facility at many a luxury resort : SPA
49 Doughnut shapes, mathematically speaking : TORI
53 Steamy literary genre : EROTICA
56 Maneuvered (through), as traffic : WEAVED
58 Bit of cricket gear : BAT
59 Like a hard-to-believe story : COCKANDBULL
62 Broadway, for one: Abbr : AVE
63 Corrected with Ctrl+Z : UNDID
64 “Kate & ___” (1980s sitcom) : ALLIE
65 “Certainly!” : YES
66 Religious factions : SECTS
67 Adheres to, as a deadline : MEETS
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