Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Sunday, June 8th

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

ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Saturday, June 7thBy Erik Kain

It’s not quite Sunday yet, but the New York Times releases its Sunday crossword puzzles on Saturday afternoon, so here we are. It’s a bite-sized Mini Crossword we have to solve today, but not without its more challenging words. Let’s take a crack at it, 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 without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive.

Spoilers ahead!

Across

1A. Org. with shooting stars — NBA

4A. Buildings with weather vanes, stereotypically — BARNS

6A. Swiss watch brand — OMEGA

7A. What Santa, Gandalf and Dumbledore each have — BEARD

8A. Pie in the ___ — SKY

Down

1D. “I’m bad with ___” (party excuse) — NAMES

2D. Start of a billiards game — BREAK

3D. Seeing red — ANGRY

4D. Timothée’s role in “A Complete Unknown” — DYLAN

5D. Feeling blue — SAD

Here are all the words on the grid:

I wasn’t sure about 1-Across so I skipped ahead and knocked out a few more obvious ones like 5-Down (SAD) and 4-Down (BOB) and then filled in 2 and 3 DOWN and 8 Across, which basically left me with 1 Down and a couple letters missing from a couple Across words. Once I plugged these in, the puzzle was done. Easy peasy! This one took me 1:02.

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