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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Across

1 Election presence since the ’40s : PACS
5 Retrieval speed of a computer : ACCESSTIME
15 Latin I word : AMAT
16 Professional pitcher? : PIANOTUNER
17 Request for details : CARETOELABORATE
19 What often can’t be beat? : THERAP
20 Light touch : CARESS
21 Minnesota W.N.B.A. team : LYNX
22 Cousin voiced by Snoop Dogg in two films : ITT
24 “Not ___” : YET
25 Heaven : ECSTASY
28 Meryl Streep and Amy Adams played them in 2008’s “Doubt” : NUNS
31 French resort town : STTROPEZ
34 Unsolicited, in a way : ONSPEC
36 More than just impress : AWE
37 Block : DAM
38 Ref’s decision : TKO
39 Supply at an I.V.F. clinic : OVA
40 Home run, informally : DINGER
42 Ready : PREPARED
44 Vet : EXGI
45 Word from the French for “rung” : ECHELON
47 Scott in Illinois, e.g.: Abbr. : AFB
49 Cultivate, in a way : HOE
50 “Really?” : ITIS
53 Last syllable of a word : ULTIMA
55 Losers of the 1994 and 1999 N.B.A. Finals : KNICKS
57 Virtually silently, in a classic poem : ONLITTLECATFEET
60 [shrug] : IDONTGETIT
61 Helen of Troy’s mother : LEDA
62 1962 war epic loaded with A-listers, with “The” : LONGESTDAY
63 Old map letters : USSR

Down

1 Deal : PACT
2 Title hero of a Menotti opera : AMAHL
3 Drew using many lines? : CAREY
4 “Ambition should be made of ___ stuff”: “Julius Caesar” : STERNER
5 Per person : APOP
6 Abbr. in French business names : CIE
7 School with the mascot Oski the Bear, familiarly : CAL
8 Puts on the books : ENACTS
9 Buckwheat noodle : SOBA
10 Part of a child’s bedtime routine, perhaps : STORY
11 Deep dishes : TUREENS
12 Foggy : INASTUPOR
13 M.L.B. team that’s played in three different stadiums since its inception in 1962 : METS
14 Old word of precedence : ERE
18 It contains nearly 10,000 sections : TAXCODE
22 Market unit : ITEM
23 Looney Tunes menace, familiarly : TAZ
26 Alley pickup : SPARE
27 Sticks figure : YOKEL
29 First name on the “Scream” poster : NEVE
30 Slew : SCAD
31 Only African-born headliner at London’s Live Aid 1985 : SADE
32 Bar from Mars : TWIX
33 Clothing misnomer more aptly replaced by “three-quart” : TENGALLON
35 Zero use : NOPOINT
38 Stereotypical lowly role in a school play : TREE
41 Christmas tradition : GIFTING
42 ___-Nomenal, punny restaurant name : PHO
43 Like some targeted winter meds : ANTIFLU
46 Style of house with wide eaves : CHALET
48 “S’il vous plaît,” across the Rhine : BITTE
51 Drinks mistakenly invented by a Dairy Queen owner in 1958 : ICEES
52 Agendas, for short : SKEDS
53 Useful command for the error-prone : UNDO
54 Many Zoom calls: Abbr. : MTGS
55 Singer Perry : KATY
56 Leading : STAR
57 Peanut ___ : OIL
58 Going concern, for short? : ETD
59 Jack Ryan’s org. in “The Hunt for Red October” : CIA

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