In case you missed Tuesday’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) Target of the Clean Air Act – SMOG
5) It beats 6-Down, but not scissors – PAPER
7) ___ acids – AMINO
8) Over-the-top excited – MANIC
9) Try to find – SEEK
DOWN
1) Messages that might be automatically deleted after 30 days – SPAM
2) Some parents, to their little ones – MAMAS
3) Conjecture out loud – OPINE
4) “Your wish is my command” speaker – GENIE
6) It beats scissors, but not 5-Across – ROCK
Bit of a speed run puzzle today if you ask me. You get to start really easily with paper and rock as the other two thirds of the game trio, giving you access to a lot of other words. After that, I found that spam and amino came pretty easily, as did smog and genie. From there, it was just filling in the blanks for things like mamas and opine.
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