In case you missed Monday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
My oh my how time flies when you’re solving puzzles. We’re in the very last week of March. Next Tuesday is April 1st (ugh, April Fool’s Day is so annoying) and we’ll officially be one quarter of the way through 2025. Wild! In any case, we have a crossword to solve, so let’s solve it! It’s small but mighty . . . .
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- Grouchy homeowner in Pixar’s “Up” — CARL
5- Sneezy sound — ACHOO
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7- Speedy sound — VROOM
8- Pick up on — SENSE
9- Facebook message status after “Sent” and “Delivered” — SEEN
DOWN
1- #1 seed in the N.B.A.’s Eastern Conference, informally — CAVS
2- Farmers’ lots — ACRES
3- French whine region — RHONE
4- Like lips that sink ships — LOOSE
6- Anomaly taken as a sign, say — OMEN
A moderately tricky Mini Crossword, to be sure. It helped that I knew CARL from Pixar’s Up, but I wasn’t sure about the others at first. I tried ACRES for Farmers’ lots, which ended up being correct, and while I had to think about it I did recall the phrase “Loose lips sink ships” and plugged that in as well as OMEN. With enough of these, it was simple enough to go back and plug in ACHOO and VROOM and the rest. If I paid attention to the NBA I might have finished this a bit quicker, but 1:25 is none too shabby.
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