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):
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NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
ACROSS
1) Clean with elbow grease – SCRUB
6) Fruit to which wrinkly fingers are compared – PRUNE
7) “Meenie miney” preceder – EENIE
8) Light bulb units – WATTS
9) “Meenie miney” follower – MOE
DOWN
1) Erupt with force – SPEW
2) Doughnut filling – CREAM
3) Total, as expenses – RUNTO
4) Come together as one – UNITE
5) They’re often abuzz about coneflowers – BEES
Approached the speed record for this solve today, one of those where if you can get an entire Across or Down category by itself, you don’t even need to do the other half. This time, we had eenie meenie miney moe taking up two of those slots, watts was pretty easie and so was prune. Scrub? Maybe a touch harder, but once that was over, that’s the whole puzzle folks. Didn’t even look at the others.
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