NYT Crossword: answers for Saturday, November 9

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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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