Mini crossword
In case you missed Thursday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:
Time for some mid-week puzzle solving and today’s Mini will have you literally looking down at your keyboard in an interesting twist for some answers. But first:
The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper’s longest running crossword puzzle. Most days, there are three to five clues in each direction on a five-by-five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.
Unlike its older sibling, the NYT Mini the crossword puzzle is free to play at New York Times website or the NYT Games app. However, you will need a NYT Games subscription to access past puzzles in the archives.
The NYT Mini it’s a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I try to beat the standard weekday grid in less than a minute. But sometimes I can’t figure out a clue or two and have to reveal the answer.
To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword Answers (spoilers ahead, of course):
NYT Mini Crossword Clue and Answers
ACROSS
1) Orion’s ___ (mid-space giant?) – ZONE
5) Italics on a historic tennis “battle” – RACE
6) You can really feel it in your core – PLANK
7) “___ well that ends well!”
8) WSJ or WaPo competitor – NYT
BELOW
1) What does it look like when you wear a crop top – TUMMY
2) Glorify – EXCITE
3) Medium Monocle – LENS
4) “Shame, shame!” click sound – TSK
5) Approach versus – SPAN
NYT
Not the hardest puzzle today, but I appreciate that they have their own name, NYT in there, which is funny. Battle of the SEXES might be a generational thing, but I’m still old enough to have gotten it. Nothing else was too much here and the cues were kind of snowballing today. See you tomorrow!
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