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):
NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
ACROSS
1) Barker who hosted “The Price Is Right” – BOB
4) (Base x height) / 2, for a triangle – AREA
6) Bouncy toys in a playroom – BALLS
8) Budget for – ALLOT
9) Busy buzzers … and letters found at the start of every clue in this puzzle – BEES
DOWN
1) Baked dessert soaked in rum – BABA
2) Big name in dental products – ORALB
3) “Beauty and the Beast” protagonist – BELLE
5) Balm ingredient with soothing properties – ALOE
7) Bourbon and Beale: Abbr. – STS
Well I actually googled this, but I cannot come up with anything that Bourbon and Beale is other than a closed restaurant, which does not tell me why its abbreviation is STS. Someone can fill me in on that one. I had trouble because of that at the end because I was trying to do ALLOW instead of ALLOT and that didn’t work. BEAST could have also been the lead of Beauty and the Beast, even starting with the same letter, but it was Belle instead.
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