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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 Gets going : KICKSTARTS
11 Plant also known as Pisum sativum : PEA
14 “Give me your worst!” : ICANTAKEIT
15 Certain cats : TOMS
16 Portmanteau for a moody and strong-willed toddler : THREENAGER
17 Actress Shawkat who played Maeby on “Arrested Development” : ALIA
18 Domaine d’Agnès Varda : CINE
19 Making a car payment, dusting the living room, scheduling a doctor’s appointment, etc. : ADULTING
21 Sea shrunk by Soviet siphoning : ARAL
22 British sci-fi novelist McDonald : IAN
24 Place for a mind or a ball : GUTTER
25 Antacid brand : ROLAIDS
27 Wrinkle of time? : AGELINE
28 Moniker for 6’9″ N.F.L. star Ed Jones : TOOTALL
30 Behold, in Latin : ECCE
31 It’s a hole thing : PAR
34 Get hot and bothered : SWELTER
36 Work whose first installment spanned 352 pages and ended with “ant,” in brief : OED
37 Guinness of “The Bridge on the River Kwai” : ALEC
39 Fish in the flounder family : HALIBUT
41 Like i, say : NONREAL
43 Professor Xavier’s students, e.g. : MUTANTS
47 Accomplish with precision : DOTOAT
48 Purchase on an island? : GAS
49 Character name in “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Downton Abbey” : CORA
50 Of the land : AGRARIAN
52 Nearly-round figure : OVAL
53 Falsify, in a way : COOK
54 Very short story? : CRAWLSPACE
58 With faculty : ABLY
59 To-do following a business meeting : ACTIONITEM
60 Unit equivalent to one-thousandth of an inch : MIL
61 Stadium section : NOSEBLEEDS
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