In case you missed Friday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
Look at that. We’re already well past the halfway mark this January and time, as usual, waits for no one. We just have to do our best to keep up. It’s not easy! In any case, I’m back at the helm of our NYT Mini Crossword guides once again, having taken over for my colleagues Paul Tassi and Kris Holt. We rotate, you see, and I’ve just been passed the baton. Let’s solve today’s!
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.
Answers to today’s Mini Crossword below . . . .
Spoilers ahead!
ACROSS
1- Worked in Microsoft Word — TYPED
6- With 14-Across, comedy writer who takes a road trip with Will Ferrell in a 2024 Netflix documentary — HARPER
8- Pseudonyms — ALIASES
10- Director Burton — TIM
11- “Oh, there ___ again!” — IGO
12- 10-legged marine crustacean — SEACRAB
14- See 6-Across — STEELE
15- Like the firstborn of two children — ELDER
DOWN
1- “___ all there is to it!” — THATS
2- Ivy Leaguers in Connecticut — YALIES
3- Man or mandrill — PRIMATE
4- Org. concerned with clean air and water — EPA
5- Wished for — DESIRED
7- Lavishly entertain (with) — REGALE
9- Not drinking any alcohol — SOBER
13- Collectible cartoon image sold at Disney World — CEL
This was a bit of a tricky Mini Crossword, though some of it was stuff I knew right away. I remembered the Will & Harper Netflix documentary so that popped in nicely. I guessed ELDER and new TIM for BURTON. From here, it was just a matter of bouncing back and forth. SOBER was easy enough for 9-DOWN. I always have the most trouble with combined words like 11-ACROSS, despite it only being three letters. IGO is just not something I think of naturally. This took me 2:01 today.
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