In case you missed Wednesday’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) One of 1,077 in the first single-volume edition of “The Lord of the Rings” – PAGE
5) Clickable symbol – ICON
6) With 3-Down, slangy aspirations for a group of friends – SQUAD
7) Throws hard – HURLS
8) Voting counterparts of nays YEAS
DOWN
1) Arouse, as interest – PIQUE
2) Maker of car models like the MDX and TLX – ACURA
3) See 6-Across – GOALS
4) “All’s well that ___ well” – ENDS
6) Like a kindergartner on the first day of school, maybe – SHY
Kind of a tough puzzle I would say today, SQUAD GOALS is the main attraction, which makes sense now, but was pretty hard to figure out in the moment. I also thought YEAS were AYES and that made things a bit of a mess for a while. Remembering how to spell PIQUE was a bit of a tough time. The easiest clue was All’s well that ENDS well, but that was really the only gimmie.
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