In case you missed Monday’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):
ACROSS
- Smokes, informally - CIGS
5) "Don’t have ___, man!" (Bart Simpson catchphrase) - ACOW
6) What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? - RACE
7) Pitt of Hollywood - BRAD
8) "Yeah, whatever" - SURE
9) Rd. crossers - STS
DOWN
- Things to "load" before a marathon - CARBS
2) Mythical figure who inspired the idiom "fly too close to the sun" - ICARUS
3) Zoomer around a small track - GOCART
4) Neighbors of Norwegians - SWEDES
The Mini designer had some fun today with a word-based car race around the vertical track here, an unusual shape from the start. I messed it up because after 25 years of Mario Kart, I am always going to spell that with a K. Honestly, I just thought that’s how it was spelled in the context of go-karts. I mean go-carts. Some other easy ones here like Brad Pitt and Icarus, so fun car race aside, not a super hard one.
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