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):
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NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
ACROSS
1) Good for a bike route, bad for a bike tire – FLAT
5) Rolling in it – RICH
6) Internet company with a purple logo – YAHOO
8) McIlroy who won the 2025 Masters – RORY
9) Mumford & ___ (rock band) – SONS
DOWN
1) Food item dipped in ketchup – FRY
2) Apt rhyme of “falsifiers” – LIARS
3) Sneezing sound – ACHOO
4) Plant’s defense against herbivores, perhaps – THORN
7) Yiddish exclamations of woe – OYS
Going to classify this as a pretty quick puzzle today, though I suppose that depends on a combination of golf knowledge, 2010s music knowledge and failing internet company knowledge. Fortunately, I have all of those, and so this puzzle was not bad at all. Throw in some easy ones like ACHOO and FRY and it was pretty easy to get through.
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