The Mini Crossword Puzzle: Test Your Skills Daily with Bite-Sized Challenges

The Mini Crossword Puzzle: Test Your Skills Daily with Bite-Sized Challenges

Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!

A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well-known crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in a lot less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve). While The Mini is smaller and simpler than a normal crossword, it isn’t always easy. Tripping up on one clue can be the difference between a personal best completion time and an embarrassing solve attempt.

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Just like our Wordle hints and Connections hints, we’re here to help with The Mini today if you’re stuck and need a little help.


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Below are the answers for the NYT Mini crossword today.

NYT Mini Crossword answers today

New York Times

Across

  • Type of bulb in many Christmas lights, for short – LED
  • Diminish, as confidence – ERODE
  • With 7-Across, sawing a person in half, e.g. – MAGIC
  • See 6-Across – TRICK
  • Breakaway religious groups – SECTS

Down

  • Sudoku solver’s asset  – LOGIC
  • Official decree – EDICT
  • Illusionists might cut them in half – DECKS
  • CPR pros – EMTS
  • Like finding a four-leaf clover – RARE