In case you missed Monday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:
Back to a traditional 5×5 all blank grid today in the Mini, no tricks here, though I did find this one a touch hard.
How to Play the NYT Mini
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) Quickly fall asleep after a long day – CRASH
6) 1/16 of a pound – OUNCE
7) Where chess, shampoo and the number zero were invented – INDIA
8) Uproar – FUROR
9) Opposite of saved – SPENT
DOWN
1) Fancy hairdos – COIFS
2) Period preceding a big event – RUNUP
3) Tennis great Agassi – ANDRE
4) Descendant of a wealthy family – SCION
5) Symbol for “like” on Instagram – HEART
I screwed this up because I thought that COIFS had an E in there somewhere, which it certainly does not. I also was looking for the opposite of saved as in, Superman saved me from a burning building, not saved as in bank account saved, because who does that. The easy one was HEART, as I mean, what other like symbol even is there (thumbs up? are you from Facebook? Gross).
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