In case you missed Friday’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) Zap with a beam of light – LASE
5) ___ solstice, the shortest day of the year – WINTER
7) 100 years – CENTURY
8) 100 years, for Jimmy Carter – AGE
9) Roll with it! – DIE
10) Sports newbies – ROOKIES
12) Like each day relative to the day before it, for the next six months – LONGER
13) Eugene V. ___, five-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America – DEBS
DOWN
1) First blank on a form, maybe – LINEONE
2) Unwanted crawler on a kitchen counter – ANT
3) Prepares for a test – STUDIES
4) More spooky – EERIER
5) “Everything cool between us?” – WEGOOD
6) Some loaves of bread … or a homophone for what they do in the oven – RYES
7) Astronomer Sagan whose papers are archived in the Library of Congress – CARL
11) Spy org. in “Bridge of Spies” – KGB
Really long, rather hard puzzle today as I did not know “lase” actually a word. You laser stuff, you don’t lase stuff, that’s absurd. Or at least what sci-fi books taught me. The clue about each day being relative to the one before it threw me until I understood it was linked to the Solstice clue. But yes, very hard today.
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