In case you missed Thursday’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) What this clue is in – BOLD
5) Rowing sport – CREW
6) Businesses where the tongue-twisted might order a 1-Across/5-Across? – CAFE
8) ___ Bunny, “Space Jam” character – LOLA
9) End of a cigarette – BUTT
DOWN
1) Include secretly, as on an email – BCC
2) Toothbrush brand – ORALB
3) Gaston’s sidekick in “Beauty and the Beast” (French for “the fool”) – LEFOU
4) Resided (in) – DWELT
7) Took a chair – SAT
This puzzle is all over the place today with fancy clues and special boxes and all of it. I already messed up the very first one because I thought the answer would be MINI not BOLD, until I read the bold text and mini was not working at all. Then you have the tongue twist of BOLD CREW which would be COLD BREW which I know because I have drunk two of those a day for five years now. Finally, my entire life has been building up to knowing the name of the hot bunny in Space Jam.
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