Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, August 11
In case you missed Sunday’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):
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NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
ACROSS
1) Blowout party – BASH
5) Airline with Sky Club lounges – DELTA
6) Body part that can be held with one hand, but not both – ELBOW
7) Get an “F” on – FLUNK
8) Subdued – TAME
DOWN
1) Ramsey of “The Last of Us” – BELLA
2) Collection of Facebook photos – ALBUM
3) Building material for the Washington Monument – STONE
4) “Red-tailed” or “red-shouldered” bird – HAWK
5) Masterful – DEFT
Have overthought a few of these clues today, including one that I thought was a trick, that maybe the body part you couldn’t hold with two hands was…a hand. But an elbow works. Also a wrist? This is kind of confusing. Past that, I was trying to think of what kind of stone the Washington Monument was made out of before I realized it was literally just looking for the word “stone,” which certainly made things easier.
What did you have trouble with today?
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