In case you missed Tuesday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:
Time for a bit of mid-week puzzle solving, and the Mini today is going to have you literally looking down at your keyboard in an interesting twist for a few answers. But first:
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) Keyboard key near the top left – TAB
4) Hot couple, in celebrity gossip column – ITEM
6) Wild, as an animal – FERAL
8) Like many four-legged friends – FURRY
9) Keyboard key on the bottom – SPACE
DOWN
1) Little spats – TFFS
2) Thoroughly devoured – ATEUP
3) Yogi who said “Alway go to other people’s funerals otherwise they won’t come to yours” – BERRA
5) Comedian Maron – MARC
7) Caustic chemical compound – LYE
Neat puzzle today. Like many of you, I put ESC in the top spot instead of TAB but that messed everything up. Once I figured out Yogi BERRA I realized my mistake there and had to fix it.
FERAL was on my mind after seeing Deadpool and Wolverine this week, where we saw Wolvie at his most feral many times. LYE I remember from Breaking Bad, what else. The rest sort of fell into place.
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