In case you missed Saturday’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):
NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
ACROSS
1) Politician whose last name sounds like 1-Down (and not like a dance!) – WALZ
5) ___ Hawkins dance – SADIE
6 The person I used to be, self-descriptively – OLDME
7) Botches – FLUBS
8) Egyptian snakes – ASPS
DOWN
1) See 1-Across – WALLS
2) Make sense, so to speak – ADDUP
3) Arms or legs … or branches – LIMBS
4) Features of puzzles, blizzards and jazz – ZEES
5) Spot to sleep when you’re in the doghouse – SOFA
I am pretty sure this is at least the second time Tim Walz has made it into a Mini puzzle since he was announced as the VP candidate, this time with a play on his name. I read it wrong and put WALTZ not WALLS at first which messed some things up. The rest wasn’t bad but spelling out ZEES like that really threw me as I would not have guessed that on its own.
Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
