In case you missed Friday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
It’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these NYT Mini Crossword guides. Last time was back in February—now it’s March! Saturday is always the hardest crossword of the week, so let’s get right to it!
The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, it’s free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive.
Spoilers ahead!
ACROSS
1- Chocolate/marshmallow sandwich — SMORE
6- Weighed down (with) — LADEN
7- Birthday cake inserts — CANDLES
9- First U.S. state alphabetically — ALABAMA
10- 0% — NOTABIT
11- Free-for-all fight — MELEE
12- Puts on the market — SELLS
DOWN
1- Winding ski races — SLALOMS
2- Herbivore seen off Florida shores — MANATEE
3- Strange person — ODDBALL
4- Give another name — RELABEL
5- Bowser and King Boo, in the Mario games — ENEMIES
7- Container on the pantry shelf — CAN
9- Took a chair — SAT
Saturday is supposed to be the hardest crossword of the week, but this one—while certainly containing more words—was not terribly difficult. I suppose that’s partly just luck of the draw. Sometimes you know the words and sometimes you don’t. SMORE was easy, but then I also knew SLALOMS (despite being a lousy skier) and CANDLES and ALABAMA at which point MANATEE was pretty obvious. From here, it’s like dominoes falling. Enough words fill in that even the ones you might not get right away like NOTABIT or LADEN quickly come into focus. This took me 1:38 today.
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