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 Put a lid on it! : HATRACK
8 To which a “To/From” label might be attached : GIFTBOX
15 Chance meeting greeting : OHHELLO
16 Away for a while : ONLEAVE
17 Question after an untimely joke : TOOSOON
18 Attacked from the sides : FLANKED
19 Pronouncing “pronunciation” as “pronounciation,” e.g. : ERRING
20 Drift : MEANDER
21 Dorothea who documented the Great Depression : LANGE
22 Lodge : BURY
23 What Han Solo never wants to be told : ODDS
25 Stars are big ones : NAMES
27 Open, as a compressed file : UNZIP
28 Sexually charged title track of a hit 1973 album : LETSGETITON
33 Title princess in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera : IDA
34 Spanish pronoun : ESA
35 Something to show for a tow : AAACARD
36 Recurring quirk : TIC
37 Contribute to a company, say : ACT
38 Hallmark of a hypocrite : INSINCERITY
40 Trig ratio : COTAN
42 ___ shock (Japan’s term for the video game crash of 1983) : ATARI
43 Place for an ornament : HOOD
44 Cornmeal cake : PONE
46 “My heart is like a singing bird / ___ nest is in a water’d shoot”: Christina Rossetti : WHOSE
50 Features of work boots : TOECAPS
52 Elevated pitches : SHARPS
53 Main course? : SEALANE
54 “The Fault in Our Stars” genre, informally : TEENLIT
55 Touchdown, e.g. : ARRIVAL
56 Without exception : BARNONE
57 Slack alternative, in brief : MSTEAMS
58 Major product of Jordan : SNEAKER
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Down

1 W, for one : HOTEL
2 Now, in Spanish : AHORA
3 Garden-variety poker? : THORN
4 Steps down : RESIGNS
5 1972 Gilbert O’Sullivan hit with a melancholy title : ALONEAGAIN
6 Draining issue : CLOG
7 ___Mari (organization method) : KON
8 Office lackey : GOFER
9 Nacre on a nice guitar, say : INLAY
10 Dessert made with a double boiler : FLAN
11 Achilles, e.g. : TENDON
12 Cheesy casserole : BAKEDZITI
13 Went too far : OVERDIDIT
14 Struck (out) : XED
20 Performers of note? : MUSICIANS
22 Test releases : BETAS
24 Scatterbrained : SPACY
26 Statistics calculation : MEAN
27 Question that one is tricked into asking, in a classic gag : UNDERWHERE
28 Drain (away) : LEACH
29 Chargeable conveyances : ESCOOTERS
30 Makeup of a sleeve : TATTOOART
31 Soeur de la mère : TANTE
32 What’s black and white and wet all over? : ORCA
39 Singer with the 2009 double-platinum album “Rated R” : RIHANNA
41 Antarctic penguin : ADELIE
44 First airline to fly a jumbo jet : PANAM
45 Cars known as Vauxhalls in the U.K. : OPELS
47 Count ___, a.k.a. Nosferatu : ORLOK
48 Book identifier, often : SPINE
49 Compound formed from an alcohol and an acid : ESTER
51 Drink similar to Champagne : CAVA
52 Bean on the screen : SEAN
53 Tech entrepreneur Altman : SAM
54 “American Dad!” airer : TBS

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