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In case you missed Wednesday’s NYT mini crossword, you can find the answers here:
And already the year is running. Before you know it, we’ll be staring down the barrel of 2026 — though I realize I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s just that 2024 has gone by so fast it’s a bit alarming! Time is greedy and insatiable and capricious. Well, we still have 364 Mini Crosswords to solve before next year. Let’s solve today’s!
NYT Mini is a smaller, faster, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT crossword, and unlike its bigger sibling, it’s free to play without a New York Times subscription. You can play it on the web or in the app, though you’ll need the app to deal with the file.
Answers to today’s Mini Crossword below. . . .
Spoilers ahead!
OPPOSITE
1 — Stormy Blast — GUST
5 — Newton who introduced the three-body problem — ISAAC
7 — Cuban dance style — RUBBA
8 — Time to call the midwife — LABOR
9 — Country bordering Vietnam — PEOPLE
BELOW
1— “The ___ With the Dragon Tattoo” — GIRL
2 — Standard restaurant order, with “the” — USUAL
3 — Afro-Brazilian dance style — SAMBA
4 — Forbidden — TABOO
6 — Focus Ford? — CARS
Today’s Mini Crossword
This ended up being pretty easy simply because what I didn’t know filled in pretty quickly based on what I did. GUST, GIRL, ISAAC, USUAL all came pretty easily straight away, as did TABOO and LABOR, and at that point the ones I wasn’t 100% sure about, like RUMBA / SAMBA were basically already finished. This took me 51 seconds.
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