Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, September 8th

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

Credit: NYT

Tuesday is perhaps the most underappreciated day of the week. It’s not the beginning, so it doesn’t get the attention of a Monday. It’s not the middle, like Wednesday. It’s not one of the days approaching the weekend, so we don’t really feel like we have anything to look forward to on a Tuesday. It’s just sort of here, taking up space. Like the second child in a family of seven. But it’s named after the god Tyr, a Germanic/Norse god of war. That’s pretty cool. And it’s a good day to get stuff done. Places tend to be a little less busy. If you need to go to the post office or the bank or have a hankering for a night out, Tuesday’s your day.

It’s not a bad day for puzzle-solving, either, not that any day is. Let’s solve today’s Mini Crossword!

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

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

Across

• 1A. Aerobics class with platforms — S
• 5A. Like crackers that have lost some crunch — S
• 6A. Not healthy, as a relationship — T
• 7A. Black-and-white cookies — O
• 8A. W, as in Waze? — W

Down

• 1D. H&M or Home Depot — S
• 2D. They’re often withheld from one’s paycheck — T
• 3D. Writer T. S. ___ — E
• 4D. Chest muscles, for short — P
• 5D. Put safely away — S

Okay, onto the answers! Remember, spoilers ahead!

Across

• 1A. Aerobics class with platforms — STEP
• 5A. Like crackers that have lost some crunch — STALE
• 6A. Not healthy, as a relationship — TOXIC
• 7A. Black-and-white cookies — OREOS
• 8A. W, as in Waze? — WEST

Down

• 1D. H&M or Home Depot — STORE
• 2D. They’re often withheld from one’s paycheck — TAXES
• 3D. Writer T. S. ___ — ELIOT
• 4D. Chest muscles, for short — PECS
• 5D. Put safely away — STOW

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is that. This one was pretty easy, though I admit the one clue that really through me off was 8-Across, which just gave us the letter W for free. How peculiar! This one only took me 42 seconds. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself!

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