Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Tuesday, February 4

In case you missed Monday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper’s larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you’ll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives.

The NYT Mini is 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 quite figure out one or two clues and need to reveal the answer.

To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword answers (spoilers lie ahead, of course):

NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers

ACROSS

1) T-shirt or blouse – TOP
4) Do a novelist’s job – WRITE
6) Confusing answer to “So I’m supposed to turn left?” – RIGHT
7) French “to be” – ETRE
8) ___-do-well – NEER

DOWN

1) Fearsome cat, in Spanish – TIGRE
2) Alternative option – OTHER
3) Marcel the monkey, on “Friends” – PET
4) Tiny bird with a piercing “teakettle-teakettle!” song – WREN
5) Religious ceremony – RITE

Weirdly, sort of an easy puzzle despite not knowing a bunch of these offhand, but the words took shape all the same. One clue for Spanish speakers and one for French. I knew the TIGRE but not the ETRE for those. I am really curious about why they chose Marcel the Monkey from Friends as the example for “pet” as that seems excedingly random. Did I miss something?

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