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) Hamburger meat, typically – BEEF
5) Unit in photography … or what a photograph might go in – FRAME
6) Pens a letter to – WRITES
7) Table manners? – WAITER
8) Famed short story writer behind “The Gift of the Magi” – OHENRY
9) “Time is ___” – MONEY
10) Model in an anatomy classroom – BODY
DOWN
1) Spears who sang “Womanizer” – BRITNEY
2) Restaurant – EATERY
3) Gritty material on a nail file – EMERY
4) Admit the truth, with “up” – FESS
5) Someone added on Facebook – FRIEND
6) “Whoopee!” – WAHOO
7) Gestation station – WOMB
The only one I didn’t know outright today was emery, which is apparently something on a nail file. The rest? Outside of the table manners pun I thought they were pretty straightforward. Kind of an odd Britney song to pick but I guess maybe they thought the others would have been too obvious. My favorite is Lucky. Going to go listen to that now, actually.
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