In case you missed Tuesday’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) Food that many an N.Y.C. tourist grabs for breakfast – BAGEL
6) Got out of bed – AROSE
7) Adjective paired with 3-Down in a simile – LOOSE
8) Effortlessness – EASE
9) Tyrannosaurus ___ – REX
DOWN
1) Makeshift seat in a barnyard, maybe – BALE
2) Very loud, like a stadium crowd – A ROAR
3) Bird whose name rhymes with 7-Across – GOOSE
4) Fictional Vermont college on Netflix’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls” – ESSEX
5) Author Harper – LEE
Gotta love the Mini where you will have one clue that is Tyrannosaurus Rex and then another that wants you to know a specific location from a specific HBO show that is not exactly one of the biggest series on TV. Fortunately I do indeed watch The Sex Lives of College Girls, but it even took me a minute to remember the actual name of the college. So good luck to the rest of you.
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