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) Word that can follow “belly of the” or “nature of the” – BEAST
6) Coffee order with a frothy top – LATTE
7) Ann ___, Mich. – ARBOR
8) Night lights? – STARS
9) You might have a lot of it on your hands, if you’re a chef – THYME
DOWN
1) Really fun time – BLAST
2) Our world – EARTH
3) Held in check – ATBAY
4) Subject of a winter weather warning – STORM
5) Abruptly worded – TERSE
Another speed run puzzle for me today and I did this in less than a minute. How? Well, I got the whole “you can just do one direction by itself” ticket, which was in part because I went to schoo in Ann Arbor, and that may have been the only tricky one. Well, that and the thyme wordplay, but I think those of us who do the Mini are used to that kind of thing by now.
Looking forward to seeing what they come up with next, and I’ll be right here with the answers for the rest of this week.
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