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
- 1) Square on a wall calendar, or a fun thing you might put on the calendar - DATE
- 5) Social ___ - MEDIA
- 6) Tiny things studied by chemists - ATOM
- 7) Only one of the Seven Dwarfs without a beard - DOPEY
- 8) Over the top, in slang - EXTRA
- 1) Period of abstaining from unhealthy substances - DETOX
- 2) Take in as one's own - ADOPT
- 3) Function in a Clock app - TIMER
- 4) Class you might take to boost your G.P.A. - EASY A
- 5) Like a bed with the covers tucked neatly in place - MADE
Kind of a hard puzzle today if you ask me, definitely was not in my top 30 for speed. I kept trying to work with SOBER instead of DETOX which really threw me off for a good long while, so that didn’t help. And I only know the names of like two of the seven dwarfs, and that was not one of them. How did you do?
