Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Fri day, May 9th

In case you missed Thursday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:

ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Thursday, May 8thBy Erik Kain

We’ve come to the end of the line for your humble NYT Mini Crossword guide. I sign off for the next two weeks, though you’ll be in good hands with my colleagues, Kris Holt and Paul Tassi. I’ll be back at the end of May, and will be penning my Wordle guides and various other puzzle assists in the meantime. Have a lovely weekend! Let’s solve this Mini, shall we?

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 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.

If you need a little help solving the Mini Crossword as fast as possible, read on for all of today’s answers.

Spoilers ahead!

ACROSS

1 — Humpty Dumpty in many illustrations — EGG

4 — Cartoon bear who wears a red shirt and no pants — POOH

6 — Collection of world maps — ATLAS

8 — Counterpart of “adios” — HOLA

9 — [See circled letters]

— WOW

DOWN

1 — Clean water org — EPA

2 — Subculture with black clothing — GOTH

3 — “When they ___” (start of a memorable Michelle Obama line) — GOLOW

5 — Angel topper — HALO

7 — It has sharp teeth — SAW

This was an interesting puzzle because of the additional circles along the middle three rows. Cobbling those together you get OOHLALA which is the hint you need for 9-Across, WOW. A lot of these were easy, which made getting to that point easy. Everyone knows Humpty Dumpty is an egg who falls and shatters into a million little pieces, much to the dismay of the king, who bafflingly sends both his men and their horses to put him back together again. Not sure a horse’s hooves are well-suited to the task.

Of all the various anthropomorphic talking bears out there, few wear pants, but only one wears a red shirt: Winnie-the-POOH! And an ATLAS is very obviously a collection of world maps. You don’t really need to know much Spanish to get HOLA as the yin to ADIOS’s yang, either. And by the time you’ve plugged all these in you basically have the downs. This one took me 1:15.

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