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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 29, #1440

Here are hints — and the answer — for today’s Wordle No. 1,440 for May 29.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s Wordle puzzle features a letter you probably don’t guess often when playing the game. (Or maybe EVER.) If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with the absolute rarest letter in the alphabet. (Check our list of which letters are most and least popular.)

Wordle hint No. 4: And that letter is…

Today’s Wordle answer begins with Q.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to rejecting or voiding something, perhaps in a legal proceeding.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is QUASH.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, May 28, No. 1439 was POLAR.

Recent Wordle answers

May 24, No. 1435: SUEDE

May 25, No. 1436: GRIFT

May 26, No. 1437: DRONE

May 27, No. 1438: SPORT

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, May 29

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for May 29.

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword has a bit of a foreign language focus. But with a little thinking, you can probably guess at the answers, even if languages aren’t your thing. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times’ games collection. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Language heard in Bangkok
Answer: THAI

5A clue: Major brand of athletic shoes
Answer: ASICS

6A clue: Language family that includes Swahili
Answer: BANTU

7A clue: Language from which we get «pajama» and «khaki»
Answer: URDU

8A clue: Small amount of Manhattan?
Answer: SIP

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Old Russian rulers
Answer: TSARS

2D clue: Language that’s third in number of worldwide speakers, after English and Mandarin
Answer: HINDI

3D clue: Misbehave
Answer: ACTUP

4D clue: Sch. not far from Des Moines
Answer: ISU

5D clue: __ Dhabi
Answer: ABU

How to play more Mini Crosswords

The New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day’s Mini Crossword for free, but you’ll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.

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Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Tariffs, Finding the President Overstepped His Authority

The US Court of International Trade rules that Congress has sole authority to regulate trade with other countries.

A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the emergency-powers law invoked by the administration doesn’t give the president authority to impose duties on goods from nearly every US trading partner.

The three-judge panel at the New York-based US Court of International Trade concluded that Congress has exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries and that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 — the crux of Trump’s argument to impose the tariffs — doesn’t give the president «unbounded» authority to impose the duties.

«An unlimited delegation of tariff authority would constitute an improper abdication of legislative power to another branch of government,» the court wrote in its opinion. «Regardless of whether the court views the president’s actions through the nondelegation doctrine, through the major questions doctrine, or simply with separation of powers in mind, any interpretation of IEEPA that delegates unlimited tariff authority is unconstitutional.»

«The challenged Tariff Orders will be vacated and their operation permanently enjoined,» the panel ruled.

White House spokesperson Kush Desai said that trade deficits amount to a national emergency «that has decimated American communities, left our workers behind, and weakened our defense industrial base — facts that the court did not dispute.» He added that «the administration is committed to using every lever of executive power to address this crisis and restore American Greatness.»

Trump has repeatedly said the tariffs would bring back manufacturing jobs to the US and help reduce the federal budget deficit. But since Trump announced his «Liberation Day» tariffs in April, global financial markets were left upended and many business leaders sounded alarms about the economic damage they would cause.

Since then, the president has repeatedly delayed the enforcement of certain rates, most recently kicking a 50% duty against the European Union to July at the earliest, leaving a lot of uncertainty in the present moment.

Wednesday’s ruling was handed down by a panel comprised of Timothy Reif, a Trump appointee; Jane Restani, who was named to the bench by President Ronald Reagan; and Gary Katzman, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

The ruling came in response to a pair of lawsuits, one filed by the Liberty Justice Center, a nonpartisan organization representing five small US businesses that said they were harmed by the president’s tariffs, and another filed by a group of 12 states, led by Oregon.

«This ruling reaffirms that our laws matter, and that trade decisions can’t be made on the president’s whim,» Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said in a statement.

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 29, #248

Hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 248, for May 29.

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.

Connections: Sports Edition might be tough today. You’ll see a bunch of single and double letters. See if you can figure out how they’re related. Read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online.

Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Play ball!

Green group hint: Championship.

Blue group hint: Sunny California city.

Purple group hint: Watch over or protect.