In case you missed Sunday’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) Chopped down – AXED
5) ___SmithKline, pharma giant shortened to GSK in 2022 – GLAXO
6) Luxury car line owned by Toyota – LEXUS
7) Banish from a country – EXILE
8) N.L. division for the Phillies and Mets – EAST
DOWN
1) Amazon “assistant” you might ask for help to solve a puzzle – ALEXA
2) Horizontal graph line – X AXIS
3) Be of good cheer – EXULT
4) Amount of medicine to take – DOSE
5) Extreme delight – GLEE
Well, I wondered if this mini was going to try to do a diagonal line of Xs all the way down, but I guess it was just the three in the middle. I’m not even sure I can think of a word that ends with X. I got the AXIS one wrong as I thought it was Y not X which really screwed things up for a while. What can I say, math is not my thing. Also, I have not heard anyone use the word EXULT for any reason other than maybe a Christmas carol. But I got it done.
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