In case you missed Saturday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
The last Lazy Sunday of the year is upon us, and I recommend you take full advantage of it. Hell, I recommend you take Monday off and just keep the weekend rolling straight through New Year’s Day. School’s out for winter. Stay home and play games, watch some of the great movies and TV shows that are out this weekend, and eat way too much food. You can get back to all your healthy, productive stuff on Thursday. But first, let’s solve today’s Mini Crossword!
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 — Getting closer, so to speak — WARM
5— First-string crew — ATEAM
7 — ___ journalism, style associated with Hunter S. Thompson — GONZO
8 — Prized “activity” for new parents — SLEEP
9 — Opposite of more — LESS
DOWN
1 — Moves like an excited dog’s tail — WAGS
2 — Ring-shaped reef — ATOLL
3 — Zellweger of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” — RENEE
4 — Puzzles in a children’s coloring book — MAZES
6 — Cleans the floor — MOPS
This was a pretty quick Mini even if a couple of the words were a bit trickier than others. I actually skipped 1 and 5 ACROSS and went straight to 7—GONZO—and then 9—LESS. I kept thinking NAPS for 8-ACROSS but it ended up being SLEEP. Close enough! I had to think a bit before I came up with ATOLL for 2-DOWN but the rest were pretty obvious. Today’s Mini took me 1 minute and 11 seconds.
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