In case you missed Wednesday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
And already the year is racing forth. Before you know it we’ll be staring down the barrel of 2026—though I realize I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s just that 2024 went by so quickly it’s a little unsettling! Time is greedy and insatiable and capricious. Ah well, we still have 364 Mini Crosswords to solve before next year. Let’s solve today’s!
The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, it’s free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive.
Answers to today’s Mini Crossword below . . . .
Spoilers ahead!
ACROSS
1 — Windy blast — GUST
5 — Newton who introduced the three-body problem — ISAAC
7 — Cuban dance style — RUMBA
8 — Time to call the midwife — LABOR
9 — Country bordering Vietnam — LAOS
DOWN
1— “The ___ With the Dragon Tattoo” — GIRL
2 — Standard restaurant order, with “the” — USUAL
3 — Afro-Brazilian dance style — SAMBA
4 — Forbidden — TABOO
6 — Ford focus? — CARS
This ended up being pretty easy simply because the ones I didn’t know filled in pretty fast based on the ones I did. GUST, GIRL, ISAAC, USUAL all came fairly easily right off the bat, as did TABOO and LABOR, and at that point the ones I wasn’t 100% certain about, like RUMBA / SAMBA were basically already done. This took me 51 seconds.
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