In case you missed Monday’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) Style, charm or attractiveness, per a modern coinage – RIZZ
5) Close bud – HOMIE
6) Black cats and red moons, supposedly – OMENS
7) Make a face, say – REACT
8) Prefix with fat or fiction – NON
DOWN
1) Title Shakespeare role for a young DiCaprio – ROMEO
2) “That is to say…” – I MEAN
3) Chemical element found in many immune-boosting supplements – ZINC
4) Finely grate, as a lemon peel – ZEST
5) Car’s noisemaker – HORN
There we go, my fastest time yet! I think I’m getting the hang of these. We have slang that’s still current, RIZZ, and slang that is less than current, HOMIE, depending on the circles you run in. Gen Z and late Millenia, I guess
I enjoyed the “fat or fiction” clever phrasing. I was never going to get I MEAN from that clue, and it was the last one I filled in by default. Others were pretty easy like ROMEO and HORN which is how I got started. How did you do?
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