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 Ireland’s second-best-selling musical act after U2 : ENYA
5 Forsythia, for one : SHRUB
10 Verbally waver : HAW
13 Something shown to a rude houseguest : DOOR
14 Mistreatment : ABUSE
15 “___ Agua Para Chocolate” (hit 1992 foreign-language film) : COMO
16 One might clean up lots of toys : DOGGROOMER
18 Potatoes, in Indian cuisine : ALOO
19 Grown in ___ (brand of frozen French fries) : IDAHO
20 Reason one might read a “Speed Hump” sign and laugh : DIRTYMIND
22 One might be “slippery” : ELM
23 Epic backdrop, maybe : WAR
25 Some skintight clothing : SHAPERS
26 Coal miner’s discovery : SEAM
28 Josh who voices Olaf in “Frozen” : GAD
30 Initial tentative attempt : FORAY
31 Nonstop flight? : STAIRMASTER
35 Jamie Lee Curtis or Neve Campbell, notably : SCREAMQUEEN
37 Really loses one’s cool : GOESNUCLEAR
39 Planned Parenthood doc : OBGYN
42 Often-bracketed bit of Latin : SIC
43 Mark as important, in a way : STAR
45 You! All of you! : SOLVERS
48 Lunes, e.g. : DIA
50 The “1” in 8-8-1, e.g. : TIE
51 “Hold please”? : INEEDAHUG
53 River through Glasgow : CLYDE
55 What lions can do that pumas cannot : ROAR
56 “A deal’s a deal!” : NOBACKSIES
58 ThinkPads, originally : IBMS
59 ___ anglaise (rich custard) : CREME
60 Survey unit : ACRE
61 Cry for help : SOS
62 Toaster’s opening : HERES
63 Randall’s elder daughter on “This Is Us” : TESS

Down

1 Goes down the drain, perhaps : EDDIES
2 Thinks (on) : NOODLES
3 Stretcher bearers? : YOGAMATS
4 Frustrated cry : ARGH
5 Portuguese title : SAO
6 “True Detective” and “The Wire,” for two : HBODRAMAS
7 One-named poet from the 13th century : RUMI
8 App audience : USERS
9 Sea bed? : BERTH
10 Like Medina, Saudi Arabia, vis-à-vis Medina, Ohio : HOLIER
11 So-called “king of the Egyptian gods” : AMONRA
12 Rustic : WOODSY
15 Scouting gatherings : CAMPOREES
17 Spat : ROW
21 “Get me?” : YAFEEL
24 Match up : AGREE
27 Fashions out of whatever’s lying around : MACGYVERS
29 Sends to hell : DAMNS
32 Worked on a collapsible table, say : IRONED
33 Hit Netflix show whose pilot episode is titled “Red Light, Green Light” : SQUIDGAME
34 Stanley of “Julie & Julia” : TUCCI
36 Low-cost lager from Anheuser-Busch, familiarly : NATTYICE
38 Eleven in Las Vegas : RAIDERS
39 God slain by his brother, then resurrected by his wife : OSIRIS
40 Animal also known as a pygmy chimpanzee : BONOBO
41 Sparkles : GLEAMS
44 ___ Puffs : REESES
46 In Buffalo, it’s a faux pas to order this with Buffalo wings : RANCH
47 Buttress, with “up” : SHORE
49 Frustrated cry : ACK
52 Eschew the subway, say : UBER
54 Something that’s good to do a 180 on? : LSAT
57 These, in French : CES

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