Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Wednesday, August 20th

Looking for help with today’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the puzzle.

Credit: NYT

It’s the middle of the week, Odin’s Day, a day for mischief and mysticism. A day for clever puzzle solving. A day for crosswords. Let’s solve this one, shall we? Time is wasting . . . .

Looking for yesterday’s NYT Mini Crossword? Check out our hints and answers right here.

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!

How To Solve Today’s Mini Crossword

Hints and Clues

Before we get to the answers, here’s the first letter for each word in today’s Mini.

Across

1A: Something worn by an infant or marathon runner – B

4A: Diversion on a long flight – M

6A: Phobos and Deimos, for Mars – M

7A: Join highway traffic – M

8A: Coloring for a camp shirt – D

Down

1D: Loudly voiced one’s disapproval – B

2D: Material in walrus tusks – I

3D: Experience four seasons in one day, say? – B

4D: “Delicious!” – M

5D: Opposite of WNW – E

Okay, onto the answers! Remember, spoilers ahead!

Across

1A: BIB – Something worn by an infant or marathon runner

4A: MOVIE – Diversion on a long flight

6A: MOONS – Phobos and Deimos, for Mars

7A: MERGE – Join highway traffic

8A: DYE – Coloring for a camp shirt

Down

1D: BOOED – Loudly voiced one’s disapproval

2D: IVORY – Material in walrus tusks

3D: BIBBS – Experience four seasons in one day, say? (This is a pun: referencing “wardrobe changes,” i.e., changing bibs like outfits — a bit of a stretch)

4D: MMM – “Delicious!”

5D: ESE – Opposite of WNW

This one wasn’t too bad, though when I saw the marathon runner / baby question my immediate reaction was DIAPER because, well, some marathon runners do wear diapers for their runs. When you gotta go, you gotta go. But that didn’t fit. BIB did. My gut reaction to Phobos and Deimos was WIVES also, because I was thinking of gods, not planets, but it was MOONS. From here, everything was pretty straightforward, though I put in BOOES at first and had to go change that to BOOED in order to finish the puzzle. This one took me 1:19.

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