Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Tuesday, August 12
In case you missed Monday’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) *Workplace for scientists – LAB
4) *Grub – CHOW
6) Maliciously revealed one’s private identity, informally – DOXED
8) Spanish “but” – PERO
9) Gasoline type: Abbr. – REG
DOWN
1) TV screen option, for short – LCD
2) ___, a skip and a jump – AHOP
3) *Someone who’s always taking jabs at you? – BOXER
5) Used to be – WERE
7) ___ days (time of summer suggested by the answers to the starred clues) – DOG
For a very tiny puzzle of almost exclusively 3 and 4 letter words, I found this puzzle a bit more difficult than I was expecting. The trickiest clue is “someone who’s always taking shots at you” which I thought was BULLY, because it fit, but BOXER is more clever. DOXED needs a certain set of internet knowledge skills to get and it may be tough without that. And you need the most basic Spanish on earth to get PERO, which many are not going to have.
What tripped you up today?
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