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) Noodle soup that’s the national dish of Vietnam – PHO
4) Scatterbrained and unreliable – FLAKY
6) Like silence in a horror movie, say – EERIE
7) “Sorry, can you repeat that? I ___ listening” – WASNT
8) Language spoken in Bangkok – THAI
DOWN
1) Fold on a kilt – PLEAT
2) Excessively negative, as criticism – HARSH
3) Hawaiian diacritical mark that looks like an apostrophe – OKINA
4) Hardly any – FEW
5) Mythical mountain monster – YETI
We are in a bit of a theme this week between Vietnam, Thailand and Hawaiian-based questions, and I have to admit all three of them threw me for at least a little while, especially OKINA in which I am not well-versed. I wondered if the mountain monster would be Bigfoot, but that was never going to fit in the mini. I also didn’t really follow the kilt one and needed some letter help there.
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