NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today

Here are the NYT Mini Crossword Answers for today. If you solve the New York Times Mini Crossword daily and get stuck while solving the puzzle, be sure to check back here every day for the solutions and cheats. These are small and quick crosswords that you can solve with clues for ACROSS and DOWN and in this guide, we will give you the exact answers you need.

NY Times Mini Crossword Cheats Guide

NOTE: The answers for today’s NY Times Mini Crossword are given below – scroll down only after you have made all your possible attempts at solving!

NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today (October 16, 2023)

Belly ___ (painful dive): FLOP
Something with a set-up and punchline: JOKE
Like some green energy: SOLAR
Salmon, to a grizzly bear: PREY
Subtracts a negative number, essentially: ADDS
Norwegian coastal feature: FJORD
Reacted to a meme, informally: LOLED
Approving responses: OKAYS
According to: PER
Where you might be steaming happy, not steaming mad: SPA

NYT Mini Crossword Answers Yesterday (October 15, 2023)

Protective ring around a castle: MOAT
“Cogito, ___ sum”: ERGO
“Huh, that’s strange …”: WEIRD
Roughly: ORSO
Like sloths and turtles: SLOW
Kitten’s quiet call: MEW
Creme-filled cookies: OREOS
“I’m also just ___, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her” (classic rom-com line): AGIRL
Middle part of the body: TORSO
Wall Street average, with “the”: DOW

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 14, 2023)

Cashes in: REDEEMS
4th-year students: Abbr.: SRS
French for “sea”: MER
Food for a horse: HAY
However, informally: THO
___ Moines, Iowa: DES
Tree creature in Middle-earth: ENT
“Sorry, you missed your window”: TOOLATE
Liberal arts college whose name anagrams to 11- and 15-Across: AMHERST
Illegally copied and sold, as music: PIRATED
Suffix with nectar, for a fruit: INE
Number on a mini golf scorecard: PAR
Slurped seafood delicacy: OYSTERS
Pet that might have a wheel: HAMSTERS
Los Angeles football team: THERAMS
Snake-like fish: EEL
Classic cinnamon candy: REDHOTS
Word that Nemo struggles to pronounce in “Finding Nemo”: ANEMONE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 13, 2023)

McCain’s opponent in 2008: OBAMA
Backstreet: ALLEY
Supreme Court justice Elena: KAGAN
See 2-Down: CAT
Part of a piano: KEY
Wood used for wine barrels: OAK
With 8-Across, unlucky thing to cross your path, it’s said: BLACK
Pond scum: ALGAE
Substantial, as an acting role: MEATY
Author Rand: AYN

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 12, 2023)

Break up: SPLIT
What a dove symbolizes: PEACE
Musical with the song “Tomorrow”: ANNIE
“Sorry, already have plans”: ICANT
“Hi, horse”: NEIGH
Winners of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: SPAIN
Vice president before Harris: PENCE
One of the Hawaiian islands: LANAI
Cake decoration: ICING
Most babies get them around 6-12 months: TEETH

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 11, 2023)

Game piece that’s a synonym for “puppet”: PAWN
New ___, capital of India: DELHI
Choose to participate: OPTIN
Sudden outpouring: SPATE
“Jane ___,” 1847 Brontë novel: EYRE
Happy and energetic: PEPPY
Place to exchange rings: ALTAR
Bad color to wear while eating ribs: WHITE
2^0 + 2^3: NINE
Unit of medicine: DOSE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 10, 2023)

Some people make it every morning: BED
Avid enthusiasm: VERVE
E.T., e.g.: ALIEN
Alternative to an au pair: NANNY
500+ pound resident of the Rockies: ELK
Very edge: BRINK
Like 2024, but not 2023: EVEN
Claim to be false: DENY
Weather ___ (rooftop spinner): VANE
Israel’s national airline: ELAL

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 9, 2023)

What connects these four – NIGHTLIFE, CARDS, GOLF, EXTRACURRICULARS?: CLUBS
Give money back to: REPAY
Foreboding signs: OMEN
Policy nerd: WONK
What connects these four – LOOSE, SPLIT, DEAD, BOOK?: ENDS
Director Cameron: CROWE
Sour fruit: LEMON
Flip over: UPEND
What connects these four – FINANCE, SNOW, RIVERS, “AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL”?: BANKS
Method: Abbr.: SYS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 8, 2023)

Place for a tattoo sleeve: ARM
They become visible as dyed hair grows out: ROOTS
Social influence: CLOUT
Reddish-brown skin dye: HENNA
“Come to think of it …”: SAY
Eyebrow shape: ARCH
Jack Ryan, for Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck: ROLE
Many ___ (a long time): MOONS
Common cat food flavor: TUNA
Stick around: STAY

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 7, 2023)

Computer memory unit: BYTE
Snatch: GRAB
T-shirt pattern associated with summer camp: TIEDYE
Visit a restaurant: EATOUT
Scooby-Doo’s owner: SHAGGY
Actor Chandler who played Coach Taylor on “Friday Night Lights”: KYLE
Slightest bit: SMIDGE
Seventh planet from the sun: URANUS
Acting grown-up: MATURE
X man since 2022?: MUSK
Suffix with Vietnam or Siam: ESE
Words that fill each blank of “I know ___ who knows ___”: AGUY
Floor covering: RUG
Two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954: UNDERGOD
“T” party for sports fans: TAILGATE
Japanese for “yes”: HAI
Military force: ARMY
“On your mark, get ___, go!”: SET

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 6, 2023)

Something you choose to chew: GUM
Country whose name is a facial feature + A: CHINA
High, as expectations: LOFTY
Cars: AUTOS
___ Peacock, character in Clue: MRS
“No ___” (invitation request): GIFTS
Biblical preposition: UNTO
Willie with 660 career home runs: MAYS
Stop talking, with “up”: CLAM
9 to 10, 10 to 11 or 11 to 12: HOUR

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 5, 2023)

Creamy French cheese: BRIE
Cheese that’s not “badda”?: GOUDA
Qualification on an iffy statement: ORNOT
Like many internet commenters: Abbr.: ANON
Camper’s construction: TENT
Carried, as by the wind: BORNE
Overly long sentence: RUNON
“___ know about that”: IDONT
Have some cheese: EAT
Cheese sometimes called chèvre: GOAT

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 4, 2023)

What “X” might mark: SPOT
Root vegetable that can be made into chips: TARO
With 2-Down, nickname for an overly swanky person: FANCY
“___ boy!”: ATTA
Something to clean up: MESS
Any member of a dropdown list that starts AL, AK, AZ: STATE
See 6-Across: PANTS
Only known predators of great white sharks: ORCAS
Squeaky mouse, for a cat: TOY
Close relatives, informally: FAM

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 3, 2023)

Fall behind: LAG
Look high and low: SCOUR
Gradually wear away, as a shoreline: ERODE
Offering at all Starbucks: WIFI
Org. for All-Star Bucks: NBA
Shower scrubber: LOOFA
Carmaker with a four-ring logo: AUDI
Test for an advanced degree seeker: Abbr.: GRE
Stitched: SEWN
Baby’s bed: CRIB

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 2, 2023)

“The Art of Fugue” composer: BACH
Jiggly dessert that was once served at Ellis Island as a “Welcome to America” gift: JELLO
Non-Ken doll in “Barbie”: ALLAN
Unlike a blowout: CLOSE
Lock openers: KEYS
___ of the ball: BELLE
Metallic mixture: ALLOY
Rhyming thing to pass: CLASS
Slowly improve: HONE
It’s just above 10: JACK

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (October 1, 2023)

Sports org. whose playoffs begin this coming week: MLB
Reason for campers to hang their food high off the ground: BEARS
“No worries”: ITSOK
Somewhat dark, as during twilight: DUSKY
“The Raven” poet: POE
Got together: METUP
Rodeo rope: LASSO
Opposite of loaded: BROKE
eBay offering: BID
Plane’s place: SKY

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 30, 2023)

Treat indulgently: CODDLE
___ spritz (cocktail): APEROL
Social media app that highlights the banality of everyday life: BEREAL
Solo of “Star Wars”: HAN
What CRISPR technology can help to edit: DNA
Like the logos of Nickelodeon, Dunkin’ and Home Depot: ORANGE
Rob who directed “When Harry Met Sally …”: REINER
Cause of early hair graying: STRESS
Musical that once starred Liza Minnelli: CABARET
Not under a roof: OPENAIR
German for “the”: DER
Brings (up) from the depths: DREDGES
Temporary vehicles given by auto repair shops: LOANER
Singer Fitzgerald: ELLA
___ d’oeuvres: HORS
Opposite of SSW: NNE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 29, 2023)

“As It Was” and “Anti-Hero”: SONGS
Hiker’s path: TRAIL
___ and beyond: ABOVE
Like the crossword in the New York Times app, but not Spelling Bee or Wordle: TIMED
Begins to wake up: STIRS
Palindromic college course: STATS
Moon’s path: ORBIT
Model Campbell: NAOMI
Dystopian 1993 novel about a colorless world, with “The”: GIVER
Zero-wheeled vehicles: SLED

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 28, 2023)

Romantic partner, in 2010s slang: BAE
Smile: GRIN
Body of water that, appropriately, suggests homophones of 1-Across and 5-Down: SOUND
Direction of the sunrise: EAST
Biblical verb suffix: ETH
Item for a painter or pet groomer: BRUSH
“If it ___ broke, don’t fix it”: AINT
What a boring meeting never seems to do: END
Best to ever do it, informally: GOAT
“Now you get it?”: SEE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 27, 2023)

Legal drama on which Meghan Markle got her big break: SUITS
Having a warm emanating light: AGLOW
Emit light: SHINE
Get caught on a jagged edge: SNAG
“Star Wars” character who asks “Judge me by my size, do you?”: YODA
Full of backtalk: SASSY
“I would literally never”: UGHNO
Homeric epic: ILLIAD
Polynesian island nation: TONGA
Stockholm’s country: Abbr.: SWE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 26, 2023)

Thespian: ACTOR
“I’m blown away!”: WOWZA
Physicist Newton: ISSAC
Self-satisfied expression: SMIRK
Sounds in a traffic jam: HONKS
Make-___ Foundation: AWISH
Cocktail made with vodka and cranberry juice: COSMO
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” author: TWAIN
Missouri’s ___ Mountains: OZARK
$1,000s and $1,000s, in rap lyrics: RACKS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 25, 2023)

Before “nice,” it’s a verb – after “nice,” it’s a noun: PLAY
Machine at a construction site: CRANE
“Whole ___ Love” (Led Zeppelin song): LOTTA
Horse-and-buggy riders in the Pennsylvania countryside: AMISH
Pay (up): PONY
Teaser ad: PROMO
Word before “America” and after “Pig”: LATIN
Feeling restless: ANTSY
“Uh-huh”: YEAH
Applaud: CLAP

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 24, 2023)

Calendar box: DAY
Appropriate name for an early summer baby: JUNE
Disco singer Summer: DONNA
Counterpart of a renter: OWNER
It adds shine to lips: GLOSS
“Beats me”: DUNNO
Queen ___ lace (plant): ANNES
See 5-Down: YEARS
Fleshy cheek: JOWL
With 3-Down, way of measuring a pup’s age: DOG

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 23, 2023)

Become tiresome: GROWOLD
Container for ashes: URN
What an ophthalmologist provides: EYECARE
Steps on a ladder: RUNGS
Geckos have sticky ones: TOE
Damage: MAR
Quarrel: ARGUE
“My apologies”: SORRY
Pot roast-er?: STONER
“Right this second!”: NOW
Director’s cry: CUT
Pecorino ___ (cheese): ROMANO
Pizza order specification: LARGE
Put on fancy clothes, with “up”: DRESS
The “A” of N.B.A.: Abbr.: ASSN
Spinning part of a turbine: ROTOR

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 22, 2023)

Charles, in England: KING
Charles, in New England: RIVER
Fill (with): IMBUE
Instrument below a cymbal: SNARE
Goad: EGGON
First female G.M. in major league baseball history (for the Miami Marlins): KIMNG
Fluid holder by a hospital bed: IVBAG
Brain: Prefix: NEURO
Color of a leprechaun’s clothing: GREEN
Opposite of fall: RISE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 21, 2023)

With 4-Across, painter of “Sunflowers” and “Irises”: VAN
See 1-Across: GOGH
Post-pool need: TOWEL
Dollar bills: ONES
Animal whose name starts with a doubled letter: EEL
Lack of rhythm?: VOWEL
Anywhere from 26 to 42, for the millennial generation now: AGES
Sports org. that awards the Stanley Cup: NHL
Missing: GONE
Something to stub: TOE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 20, 2023)

• Take a chair: SIT
• What restaurants that serve Sierra Mist, Aquafina and Mug Root Beer are also likely to have: PEPSI
• Steer clear of: AVOID
• Where lots of streamers can be found hanging around: PARTY
• Bullet ___, insect with an incredibly painful sting: ANT
• Boxing or bowling: SPORT
• “___ just me, or …”: ISIT
• Neat and clean: TIDY
• Daddy: PAPA
• Broadway’s “Dear ___ Hansen”: EVAN

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 19, 2023)

Original airer of Monty Python skits: BBC
F, on a gauge: FULL
Actor Jason of “Aquaman” and “Dune”: MOMOA
E, on a gauge: EMPTY
Throw in the garbage: TOSS
Volleyball passes: BUMPS
Images on Rorschach tests: BLOTS
Sculpting medium: CLAY
Feeling after skipping a social event, for short: FOMO
Convened: MET

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 18, 2023)

• Spots on dice and dominoes: PIPS
• Run ___ (go wild): AMOK
• Garlicky mayonnaise: AIOLI
• Data: INFO
• What Foot Locker employees dress as: REFS
• Thomas who authored influential pamphlets during the American Revolution: PAINE
• “See ya later!”: IMOFF
• Preppy shirts: POLOS
• Glide on snow or water: SKI
• Producer of inflation: AIR

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 17, 2023)

• Green energy option: WIND
• ___ rings (appetizer): ONION
• Japanese writing using Chinese characters: KANJI
• Fly like an eagle: SWOOP
• Squiggle shape: ESS
• Deep fryers?: WOKS
• Amazed: INAWE
• Spanish for “kids”: NINOS
• Martial arts schools: DOJOS
• ___ in the bud: NIPS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 16, 2023)

• 24 cans of beer: CASE
• 007, e.g.: AGENT
• 24/7: ALLDAY
• Subtle “Good job”: NOD
• The “L” of L.A.: LOS
• Generate, as a sweat: WORKUP
• D.C. transit system: METRO
• D.C. newspaper: POST
• Actor James of “The Godfather”: CANN
• All lit up: AGLOW
• Not often: SELDOM
• What time may or may not have: END
• Chat with: TALKTO
• Affectionate letter sign-off: YOURS
• Place to park: SPOT
• Sales ___: REP

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 15, 2023)

• “I’m thinking, I’m thinking …”: UMM
• They often find their parents uncool: TEENS
• Chambers of the heart: ATRIA
• Like bad derivative comedy: HACKY
• “For ___ a jolly good fellow …”: HES
• Where Mitt Romney is senator: UTAH
• Prefix with physics: META
• Concert swag: MERCH
• Company with a swoosh logo: NIKE
• Speaks aloud: SAYS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 14, 2023)

• Simple kind of shirt: TEE
• Exercises that work on the [circled letters]: CURLS
• Aircraft over a sports stadium: BLIMP
• Risky: DICEY
• Golfer’s target: PAT
• Colorful flower with a bulb: TULIP
• First name that anagrams to “I CARE”: ERICA
• Fudd who bugged Bugs Bunny: ELMER
• Popular oil derived from marijuana, for short: CBD
• Many a John le Carré protagonist: SP:Y

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 13, 2023)

• Iconic yellow symbol of N.Y.C.: CAB
• Title for an Arab leader: SHEIK
• Bridal path: AISLE
• It’s a small world: GLOBE
• Nurse, as a drink: SIPON
• ___ powder (seasoning blend): CHILLI
• Greek teller of fables: AESOP
• Baggins in “The Hobbit”: BILBO
• Sinks under weight: SAGS
• Alertly interested: KEEN

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 12, 2023)

• Caspian or Caribbean: SEA
• Cried like a crow: CAWED
• Cup for a competition champion, e.g.: AWARD
• Casual cloth: DENIM
• Catch, as a cue: SEE
• Cobs and cygnets: SWANS
• Creepy: EERIE
• Connection request on social media: ADDME
• Crude dude: CAD
• Completely impress: AWE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 11, 2023)

• Traffic tie-up: JAM
• Distant and unfriendly: ALOOF
• Roald Dahl character who sports a purple coat and green trousers: WONKA
• Having a serious expression: STERN
• Chasing game: TAG
• 1975 hit movie filmed largely at sea: JAWS
• Tons and tons: ALOT
• “Impression, Sunrise” painter: MONET
• Vegetable that becomes gooey when cooked: OKRA
• Sharp canine: FANG

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 10, 2023)

• When tripled, an ellipsis: DOT
• Phoenix N.B.A. team: SUNS
• See 6-Across: CHECK
• With 5-Across, assessment of the feeling in the room: VIBE
• Snoop: SPY
• Deadline words: DUEBY
• First word of a fairy tale: ONCE
• Reprimanding sound: TSK
• Cruise boat, e.g.: SHIP
• Walgreens rival: CVS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 9, 2023)

• Noggin: NOB
• Mount ___, highest peak in Los Angeles, named for its lack of tree cover: BALDY
• Greasy hairstyling product: POMADE
• Dog’s uncontrollable need to run around in circles: ZOOMIES
• ___ Joy (candy): ALMOND
• Your brother’s daughter, to you: NIECE
• The “Y” of N.Y.C.: YORK
• Place to hang between two trees: HAMMOCK
• Jerry’s friend on “Seinfeld”: ELAINE
• Thrown into the mix: ADDED
• Changes the color of: DYES
• Person born in the 1950s, informally: BOOMER
• Ailment suffered by F.D.R.: POLIO
• Wacky: ZANY

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 8, 2023)

• Mind/body exercise: YOGA
• Really love: ADORED
• “Ok, understood”: NOTE
• Work hard: GRIND
• Not request another card, in blackjack: STAY
• The white side of this symbol: ☯: YANG
• Emanations from trash cans: ODORS
• Many a basketball stadium: ARENA
• Swirling water: EDDY

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 7, 2023)

• Number of times you’ll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers: TWO
• *Boo: ERROR
• Actress Keaton: DIANE
• Southern breakfast food: GRITS
• The black side of this symbol: ☯: YIN
• *Choo: TRAIN
• Simply refuses to: WONT
• City-building cards in the game Catan: ORES
• Avant-garde: EDGY
• Nickname for Rihanna: RIRI

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 6, 2023)

• “How cute!”: AWW
• U.S. metropolis with neighborhoods like South Beach and Little Havana: MIAMI
• Like many draft beers: ONTAP
• “Bye now”: SEEYA
• Shower curtain suspender: ROD
• “Famous” cookie maker: AMOS
• Napa Valley product: WINE
• It can be found in the spring: WATER
• Condiment for a lobster roll: MAYO
• Tablet released in 2010: IPAD

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 5, 2023)

• “I’m Just ___,” song performed by Ryan Gosling in “Barbie”: KEN
• Underneath: BELOW
• Over top: ABOVE
• Terminal points: GATES
• Part of a karate uniform: BELT
• Meat on a stick: KEBAB
• Mexican street food of grilled corn slathered with mayo, chili powder, cheese and lime: ELOTE
• Author’s creation: NOVEL
• Groceries holder: BAG
• Famous wing of the White House: WEST

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 4, 2023)

• Recede, as the tide: EBB
• Bit of paperwork: FORM
• “Yes ___, Bob!”: SIREE
• Related to an arm bone: ULNAR
• Who “shall inherit the earth,” per a Bible verse: MEEK
• Submit one’s taxes on TurboTax, say: EFILE
• Carried: BORNE
• With the circled letters, period that traditionally ends on Labor Day: BREAK
• French for “sea”: MER
• Basic math calculation: SUM

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 3, 2023)

• Not very many: FEW
• It has been called “the most complex object in the known universe”: BRAIN
• Ahead of schedule: EARLY
• A new one often accompanies a promotion: TITLE
• Baseball players who bat but don’t field: Abbr.: DHS
• “___ not” (slangy refusal): FRAID
• It’s found 93 million miles from the sun: EARTH
• Documents that list heirs: WILLS
• Make a wager: BET
• Bill ___ the Science Guy: NYE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 2, 2023)

• Radio personality Charlamagne ___ God: THA
• Teeth holders: GUMS
• Hybrid dessert with a flaky interior: CRONUT
• Zoom meeting scheduler: HOST
• Knight’s horses NYT crossword clue: STEEDS
• Habitually end sentences as questions, rather than statements: UPSEAK
• Bread for a Reuben sandwich: RYE
• Small crack: CREVICE
• Meat option for fajitas: STEAK
• “___ gracias”: MUCHAS
• What the U.S. and U.K. have in common?: UNITED
• Stroke affectionately: PET
• Title for Ron DeSantis or Gavin Newsom: Abbr.: GOV
• Big name in candy cups: REESES
• Bitcoin’s field: CRYPTO
• Unspoken romantic attraction: CRUSH

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (September 1, 2023)

• Sound made by an electric vehicle at low speed: HUM
• Go Rollerblading: SKATE
• Unit for a diamond ring: CARAT
• First Greek letter: ALPHA
• Singer Lana Del ___: REY
• Half-human, half-bird creature, in myth: HARPY
• Home to Arches National Park: UTAH
• Parent company of Threads: META
• Battle reminder: SCAR
• Dark, leafy green: KALE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 31, 2023)

• “Every human has a unique tongue print,” e.g.: FACT
• Keep away from: AVOID
• Specialized terminology: LINGO
• Budweiser is this type of beer: LAGER
• Usual situation: NORM
• Cider season: FALL
• Bird-related: AVIAN
• Republic of the ___ (African country): CONGO
• Animal mentioned in the lyrics to Katy Perry’s “Roar”: TIGER
• College housing: DORM

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 30, 2023)

• With 8-Across, rare lunar phenomenon occuring on August 30th: BLUE
• Put into words: PHRASE
• “Star Wars” Jedi who mentored Luke: OBIWAN
• See 1-Across: MOON
• Vivaciousness: BRIO
• Manicured stretch of grass: LAWN
• Team knocked out by Sweden at the 2023 Women’s World Cup: USA
• Dark time of day, in poetry: EEN
• When doubled, woolen ball on a hat: POM
• Network whose shows stream on Max: HBO

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 29, 2023)

• Baby whale: CALF
• Nowhere to be found, for short: AWOL
• Opposition to developments in one’s area, colloquially: NIMBY
• United ___ Emirates: ARAB
• Smallish horse: PONY
• Capital city along which the Nile runs: CAIRO
• “Darn it!”: AWMAN
• L, on an elevator: LOBBY
• Wing it?: FLY
• Briefly visit dreamland: NAP

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 28, 2023)

• Gusted … or a homophone of a primary color: BLEW
• Interpreted … or a homophone of a primary color: RED
• Dinghies and other such thingies: BOATS
• Turn in chess: MOVE
• Wolverine and Cyclops, in the Marvel universe: XMEN
• Witch’s ride: BROOM
• Head out: LEAVE
• Consumed: EATEN
• Dictionary entries: Abbr.: WDS
• Sport with stunt bikes, for short: BMS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 27, 2023)

• Loud sound of thunder: CLAP
• “Very funny!”: HAHA
• No longer in vogue: DATED
• Chain of beauty stores: ULTA
• Gave a stamp of approval: OKED
• Coating for a gymnast’s hands: CHALK
• Coffee drink that means “milk” in Italian: LATTE
• How clocks move on Daylight Savings Time: AHEAD
• Place of residence, informally: PAD
• Lead-in to lingo: DUO

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 26, 2023)

• Language of 25 U.S. state mottos: LATIN
• Male friend, in Spanish: AMIGO
• River that forms much of the Laos/Thailand border: MEKONG
• Word with “fire” or “carpenter”: ANT
• Quickly change direction: ZIG
• Finished, slangily: DONEZO
• Cosmic payback: KARMA
• Cylinder for thread: SPOOL
• Dalai ___: LAMA
• Make changes to, as the Constitution: AMEND
• Short social media videos: TIKTOKS
• “Where did ___ wrong?”: IGO
• Having some value, positive or negative: NONZERO
•  Gadget: GIZMO
• Soccer highlight: GOAL
• Downfall of the Hare, in Aesop’s famous fable: NAP

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 25, 2023)

• Stupefaction: AWE
• Long volumes, or short messages: TEXTS
• Summer travel, informally: VACAY
• Bunch of yarn: SKEIN
• Business name ender: LLC
• Off-roaders, for short: ATVS
• Like watery coffee: WEAK
• Perform brilliantly: EXCEL
• It’s back on the waggin’: TAIL
• In ___ (harmonized): SYNC

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 24, 2023)

• ___ and sweet: SHORT
• Like someone with a high-achieving personality: SWEET
• Cow’s milk gland: UDDER
• Ground coating on a cold morning: FROST
• Many emojis: FACES
• Things and whatnot: STUFF
• Greek monster with nine heads: HYDRA
• Brief nonfiction film with a viewpoint: OPDOC
• Actress Witherspoon: REESE
• Pop-___ (breakfast brand): TARTS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 23, 2023)

• Surface again, as a dormant email thread: BUMP
• Home to Laos and Lebanon: ASIA
• Food from the heavens: MANNA
• Shiva and Vishnu, e.g.: GODS
• The ___ Tour, Taylor Swift’s record-breaking concert series: ERAS
• “Kapow: BAM
• How a word is employed: USAGE
• Like the scale A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A: MINOR
• National animal of China: PANDA
• Pain in the ___: ASS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 22, 2023)

• Where you might find someone who’s a real keeper: ZOO
• Manhattan’s rank in population among the five boroughs: THIRD
• Super excited: HYPED
• “See ya!”: ADIOS
• Drenched: WET
• “Hush!”: ZIPIT
• Cookie in cookies-and-cream ice cream: OREO
• Vegas calculations: ODDS
• Gradually melt: THAW
• London’s ___ Park: HYDE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 21, 2023)

• Ice cream holder: CUP
• Musical instrument in Guinness’s logo: HARP
• Ice cream topping: NUTS
• Away from the wind, to a sailor: ALEE
• West Point student: CADET
• Goads on: URGES
• N95 masks and the like: Abbr.: PPE
• Streaming service with “Only Murders in the Building”: HULU
• Ceiling spinner: FAN

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 20, 2023)

• Place for science experiments: LAB
• Coins used in Cannes, Cádiz and Cologne: EUROS
• Do slightly better than: ONEUP
• Part of the name Hannah Montana or Denzel Washington: STATE
• Major shoe retailer: DSW
• Many August babies: LEOS
• Family relative with two pronunciations: AUNT
• Challah or baguette: BREAD
• The three in a triple play: OUTS
• Gush forth: SPEW

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 19, 2023)

• Unkempt guy, from the Yiddish: SCHLUB
• Pop star Grande: ARIANA
• Pup’s place to plop: DOGBED
• “Won’t Get Fooled Again” band, with “the”: WHO
• Fencing swords: SABERS
• You live on one: PLANET
• Hang out on a clothesline: AIRDRY
• Feeling blue: SAD
• Tool that’s used for prying: CROWBAR
• Top-of-the-line: HIGHEND
• One doing hard manual work: LABORER
• French feminine article: UNE
• It can mean “good-looking,” oxymoronically: BAD
• Business with massages and mud baths: SPA
• Boxer Muhammad: ALI
• Pig’s home: STY

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 18, 2023)

• Moves around the world?: ORBITS
• Clear outer layer of the eye: CORNEA
• “One bird can’t make a pun, but ___!”: TOUCAN
• Prized gold statuettes: OSCAR
• Bills featuring a portrait of Alexander Hamilton: TENS
• Eight: Prefix: OCTO
• Make a home for the night, as a bird might: ROOST
• Rocker Springsteen: BRUCE
• Of an old Peruvian empire: INCAN
• “The Legend of Zelda: ___ of the Kingdom” (hit 2023 video game): TEARS
• Without: SANS

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 17, 2023)

• Channel with on-air pledge drives: PBS
• “Say what!?”: HUH
• With 7-Across, street sign with a red circle and white bar: DONOT
• See 5-Across: ENTER
• Like eating a melting ice cream cone: MESSY
• Object that has moved from the wall to your pocket: PHONES
• Short hits, in baseball: BUNTS
• Vans, e.g.: SHOES
• Blue on an electoral map: Abbr.: DEM
• Make an effort: TRY

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 16, 2023)

• Beaver’s construction: DAM
• The “S” of NASA: SPACE
• Things a boogie boarder rides: WAVES
• ___ coffee (cocktail): IRISH
• Extremely, in slang: MAD
• Environmental advocate Attenborough: DAVID
• AA, in a game: ACES
• Go together well: MESH
• Do laps in a cap, say: SWIM
• Prefix with legal: PARA

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 15, 2023)

• Clever and concise, as a quip: PITHY
• Most popular starting guess in Wordle: ADIEU
• Himalayan country: NEPAL
• What there’s no accounting for, they say: TASTE
• Cunning: SLY
• What a marathon runner does, but rarely wears?: PANTS
• Best possible: IDEAL
• A bit buzzed: TIPSY
• Word associated with summer or simmer: HEAT
• Winter festival time: YULE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 14, 2023)

• Chief god on Mount Olympus: ZEUS
• Digital payment app: ZELLE
• Head of a group of monks: ABBOT
• Shoes that can be decorated with charms known as Jibbitz: CROCS
• Aggressively sell: HAWK
• Each one has a unique stripe pattern: ZEBRA
• Where your “funny bone” is located: ELBOW
• One way to secure a bike: ULOCK
• Tennis match divisions: SETS
• Comic actor Galifianakis: ZACH

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 13, 2023)

• Morsel of food: CRUMB
• Affectionate term akin to “sweetie”: HONEY
• Show host: EMCEE
• Theater selection: SEAT
• Rhyming word after “crop”: TOP
• Where your pectoral muscles are: CHEST
• Shakespeare character mentioned in Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”: ROMEO
• Open, as a pen: UNCAP
• Shake hands for the first time: MEET
• “See ya!”: BYE

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 12, 2023)

• Sound quality of a musical note: TIMBRE
• Soul singer Franklin: ARETHA
• Boards, as a bus: GETSON
• Nonkosher meat: HAM
• 2023 starring role for Margot Robbie: BARBIE
• Like many participants of company-wide Zoom calls: ONMUTE
• Old Faithful, e.g.: GEYSER
• Luggage identifier: TAG
• Intense anger: IRE
• Powerful greenhouse gas: METHANE
• Fan group of a massively popular K-pop band: BTSARMY
• Four-sided shape: RHOMBUS
• Suffix with Ecuador, for a resident: EAN
• Marshy area: BOG
• Suffix with Manhattan, for a resident: ITE
• Always, poetically: EER

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 11, 2023)

• Letters that move around: MAIL
• School function with a D.J. DANCE
• Liver or lungs: ORGAN
• Area of study: FIELD
• See 2-Down: FALLS
• Tennis’s Sharapova: MARIA
• With 8-Across, Venezuelan landmark whose water drops 3,200+ feet: ANGEL
• “Your bet doesn’t scare me,” in poker: ICALL
• Gives temporarily: LENDS
• Remove, as a hat: DOFF

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 10, 2023)

• ___ Jam (record label): DEF
• A grate way to cook: GRILL
• Full of butterflies: NERVY
• Opposite of pro: ANTI
• Contents of a kid’s bin: TOYS
• Adjective that describes a martini when olive juice is added: DIRTY
• Graceland is his former mansion: ELVIS
• Tiny winged insect: FLY
• Nevada city near Lake Tahoe: RENO

NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle Answers (August 9, 2023)

• Lionel ___, new star for Inter Miami: MESSI
• Praise highly: EXTOL
• Make amends (for): ATONE
• Rx stuff: DRUGS
• 1600 is a perfect score on it: SAT
• Fermented honey drinks: MEADS
• Brand of gum: EXTRA
• Partner of “short,” for the little teapot: STOUT
• Something a musical has that a play doesn’t: SONG
• Islands, in French: ILES

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 8, 2023)

• Word after sugar or candy: CANE
• Boat attackers in 2023 news: ORCAS
• Mass times acceleration, in physics: FORCE
• Score below 65%: FAIL
• Kind of deviation in statistics: Abbr.: STD
• Neighbor of a Slovene or Hungarian: CROAT
• Foul-smelling: ACRID
• Table salt, in chemistry: NACL
• Opposite of WNW: ESE
• Show-___ (attention-seeking sorts): OFFS

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 7, 2023)

• Opportunity could once be found here: MARS
• Streaking ball of ice and dust: COMET
• Male spouse, informally: HUBBY
• ___ of Man: ISLE
• Removable part of a banana: PEEL
• “If You Give a ___ a Cookie” (classic children’s book): MOUSE
• Saunter: AMBLE
• Fight against authority: REBEL
• Pig pen: STY
• Word associated with computers, golf and snack foods: CHIP

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 6, 2023)

• First responder to an accident: Abbr.: EMT
• Opposite of rapid: SLOW
• With 6-Across, rapids: WHITE
• See 5-Across: WATER
• Term for a young otter or wolf: WHELP
• In the upper echelon: ELITE
• Roadside inn: MOTEL
• Little whippersnapper: TWERP
• Former ruler of Iran: SHAH
• It follows “//” in a URL: WWW

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 5, 2023)

• Reasons to vote yes: PROS
• California ___ (state bird of, where else, California): QUAIL
• Drink quickly: GUZZLE
• Asked trivia questions to: QUIZZED
• Given a name: TITLED
• “Oh wait, that wasn’t true”: ILIED
• Beloved family members: PETS
• Crosswords, sudokus, jigsaws, etc.: PUZZLES
• Made fun of: RAZZED
• Well-___ machine: OILED
• Toboggan, e.g.: SLED
• “Stop doing that!”: QUITIT
• Cunning deception: GUILE
• Cotton swab brand: QTIP

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 4, 2023)

• Scandal suffix: GATE
• Beauty brand with Regenerist cream: OLAY
• Animal that can weigh up to 1,800 pounds and run 35 m.p.h.: MOOSE
• Dominant hand for about 10% of people: LEFT
• Computer memory unit: BYTE
• Like the inside of a warm chocolate chip cookie: GOOEY
• Up in the air: ALOFT
• Refined sense of style: TASTE
• What you might call a “peeper”: EYE
• World Series org.: MLB

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 3, 2023)

• Recyclable category: GLASS
• That little extra pop: OOMPH
• Competitor of Lexus and BMW: ACURA
• Concentrated beam of light: LASER
• Something you might do “like a log”: SLEEP
• Some New Year’s resolutions: GOALS
• Not an out-of-towner: LOCAL
• Get a smile out of: AMUSE
• Shopping binge: SPREE
• Like some cheddar and knives: SHARP

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 2, 2023)

• Tree with “eyes” on its white bark: ASPEN
• Marine animal whose closest living land relative is the hippo: WHALE
• “I’m not a ___” (captcha phrase): ROBOT
• Lets out a sharp cry: YELPS
• Mother of a fawn: DOE
• Not going right: AWRY
• Wearing footgear: SHOED
• Painter Picasso: PABLO
• Run away to marry: ELOPE
• They frequently go to court in Brooklyn: NETS

NYT Mini Crossword Answers (August 1, 2023)

• Personal feud: BEEF
• In a way, informally: KINDA
• Contribute to the mix: ADDIN
• Where you might find eels near isles: REEFS
• Artist Warhol: ANDY
• Modern lead-in to “-omics”: BIDEN
• Came to a close: ENDED
• Enlighten: EDIFY
• Team supporters: FANS
• Tech journalist Swisher: KARA

What is the Average Time to solve the NYT Mini Crossword?

After you solve the daily crossword, you will see how much time you took to get the answer. The average time to solve the NYTimes Mini Crossword depends on experience and can be around 2 minutes for veterans and 5-10 minutes for new or young solvers.

How do you play the New York Times Mini?

• All you have to do is visit this official link from a Desktop browser or mobile browser and log into your NYtimes account. Create one if you haven’t already and you should be able to start solving immediately.
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Does the Mini Crossword get harder through the week?

Mondays are the easiest crosswords while Saturdays are the toughest to solve. But the difficulty level also depends on the vocabulary and experience of the solver.

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