In case you missed Friday’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) Computing platform? – DESK
5) Campanelle is a bell-shaped variety of this – PASTA
6) Daly of “Today” – CARSON
7) Kickstarter supporters – BACKERS
8) Landlocked neighbor of Georgia and Azerbaijan – ARMENIA
9) Sneaks a peek – GLANCES
10) Had a feeling about SENSED
DOWN
1) Grows dim – DARKENS
2) Magazine whose 50th anniversary issue featured Naomi Campbell on the cover – ESSENCE
3) Legendary, as one’s past – STORIED
4) State school whose students chant “Rock Chalk, Jayhawk!” – KANSAS
5) Pellet-chomping arcade character – PACMAN
6) Eric ___, author of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” – CARLE
7) Items strapped to a golf cart – BAG
You do not often see too many Mini puzzles with this many seven latter words, which makes this not all that mini at all. That said, I didn’t think this was the hardest one we’ve seen of this size, as clues like PACMAN and PASTA and BACKERS were easy to get, I thought. ARMENIA tests your geography knowledge and KANSAS your school spirit. Two minutes or so for me today, how did you do?
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