Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers And Clues For Sunday, August 31
In case you missed Saturday’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):
NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
ACROSS
1) “Hamilton” was nominated for 16 of them in ’16 – TONYS
6) Vegetable you might wear cooking goggles to cut – ONION
7) Lizard that can detach its own tail – GECKO
8) Slightly off, as a picture frame – ASKEW
9) Cunning – SLY
DOWN
1) Wrap on filming “300”? – TOGA
2) Tip jar bills – ONES
3) Tiny shaving cuts – NICKS
4) Country bumpkin – YOKEL
5) Adjective that can precede “owl” or “egret” – SNOWY
Twenty seconds. That is my all-time record that I just set with this puzzle today, only made possible when you go can go down a line and solve every one in a category almost instantly, meaning you don’t have to do any of the other side. Across here was very easy where I would not have gotten TOGA, YOKEL or SNOWY probably if I had gone the other direction. How did you do?
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