In case you missed Saturday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
It’s another lovely, lazy Sunday to sit around and solve word puzzles. Well, actually it’s still Saturday, but the Sunday crossword is already live (I’m still not really sure why the New York Times publishes the Sunday and Monday puzzles so much earlier) so we’ll just pretend it’s Sunday for the purposes of this post, and we have the Sunday Mini Crossword to solve!
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- Role for Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown” — DYLAN
6- Makeup for the cheeks — ROUGE
7- “Well, shucks!” — AWGEE
8- Serious devotee — FIEND
9- Appropriate rhyme for “stressed,” for students — TEST
DOWN
1- Unfortunate status for an email you meant to send last week — DRAFT
2- “Gadzooks, that hurt!” — YOWIE
3- Winter Olympics sleds — LUGES
4- Writer’s representative — AGENT
5- Have to have — NEED
Despite having fewer words than yesterday’s Mini, I thought this one was harder. Or I was just off my game. 1-ACROSS was simple enough, since “A Complete Unknown” is a new movie about Bob Dylan. But then 2-ACROSS I kept thinking BLUSH instead of ROUGE. Even when I skipped it and got to 3-DOWN and LUGES, the ‘U’ was in the right spot for BLUSH but it clearly wasn’t the right answer. I guess I’m not much of a makeup guy! In any case, this took me just about ten seconds longer than yesterday, at 1:48.
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