In case you missed Wednesday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
We’re well into the back-half of September, with just a handful of days left of summer. It feels very much like fall here this week, with temperatures collapsing and leaves already falling. People are already decorating for Halloween. Winter is coming.
It’s a fine time, in other words. A fine time to solve today’s Mini Crossword puzzle!
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, obviously. Skip ahead for all the answers plus an image of today’s completed puzzle.
ACROSS
1 — With 4- and 5-Across, opposite of fantasy land — THE
4 — See 1-Across — REAL
5 — See 1-Across — WORLD
6 — Bend in the road — CURVE
7 — Be in the driver’s seat — STEER
DOWN
1 — French for “earth” — TERRE
2 — Slice in two — HALVE
3 — ____ statesman — ELDER
4 — Overwhelming victory — ROUT
5 — Rooms with toilets, in European shortand — WCS
This was a tricky one! Obviously the first three ACROSS words can’t be surmised without some help from some DOWNs, so I skipped ahead. I plopped in CURVE and HALVE and at this point things became more clear. ROUT was next, followed by STEER. Now I had enough letters to start filling in the blanks. THE REAL WORLD pretty much solved it, and I still don’t know why in European shorthand they call a bathroom a WCS. I solved today’s mini in 1:40. How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.
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