In case you missed Wednesday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:
Time for another Mini as we head out toward the end of the week, and for whatever reason my brain really struggled with this one, despite looking back to see a lot of things I didn’t need to miss. But first:
The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper’s larger and long-rumgys, 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.
Spoilers ahead, obviously. Skip ahead for the image of today’s solved puzzle.
ACROSS
1) Horse’s foot – HOOF
5) More than enough – AMPLE
7) Like movies listed on Rotten Tomatoes – RATED
8) Recoiled (from) – SHIED
9) What you can make dance by putting a little boogie in it, in an old joke – HANKY
DOWN
1) Like some criticism and winter weather – HARSH
2) Nebraska’s largest city – OMAHA
3) Agree to receive promotional emails, say – OPTIN
4) On ___ (super stylish, in 2010s slang) – FLEEK
6) Swirl, as water – EDDY
Yeah, I thought this one was hard, I don’t know what to say. Things I got wrong included saying fetch instead of fleek as I was thinking of Mean Girls which I’m pretty sure came out around then. Then I thought the Rotten Tomatoes one was Fresh because it had the right amount of letters. It was not. The boogie joke even had me googling that answer but all those said “tissue” when the end result answer was hanky and that is not a word I have heard in probably two decades. What did you think of this puzzle?
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