Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Wednesday, August 21

Need help in solving the current NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are hints and solutions to the puzzle.

By Paul Tassi

Aug 20, 2024 11:29 PM

If you’ve have missed the NYT’s Tuesday’s Mini and are looking for all the information here.

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The new Wednesday puzzle is here you can try to beat your record speed with this one. But I’m sure there’s going to at the very least one word likely to confuse you in this puzzle. First…

It’s the NYT Miniis an easy but dirty variant of their more complex and more long-running crossword. On most days it has at least three to five puzzles the same direction across a five-by-five grid, however the puzzles can be larger and more difficult, particularly on Saturdays.

As opposed to its bigger brother that is this version of the NYT Minicrossword is available for free through the New York Times website or the NYT Games application. But, you’ll require an NYT Games subscription to access older puzzles on the archives.

New York Times Miniis an enjoyable everyday distraction that generally isn’t time-consuming at all. I strive to beat the typical weekday grid in under an hour. However, sometimes I’m unable identify the answer to a few questions and I’m required to reveal the solution.

To make sure you don’t do this To help you avoid that, Here are New York Times Mini Crossword Answers ( spoilers lie ahead obviously):

NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers

ACROSS

1) Top ten, e.g. – LIST

5.) Nintendo antagonist in a yellow cap and purple overalls WARIO

6) One one ANODE

7) Ten people in the Olympic swimming pool LANES

8.) Which “X” can mean – KISS

DOWN

1.) Hawaiian island seen from the west side of Maui – the LANAI

2.) Unwrinkles, in an evening dress IRONS

3.) A decagon contains 10 SIDES

4) The bottom Ten? – TOES

5) Walk around – DRIVE

I’m thrilled to see WARIO featured in an interesting puzzle such as this and it’s not often you can get an online game as a reference and I’m wondering how many people really know who he is among the public at large.

Perhaps the most difficult word to come up with this is ANODE, which I had no idea was even a thing in batteries. I initially put “MINUS” as the five letters word before realizing that it would muck up five other solutions. I did not even put “bottom ten” as TOES however that’s very clever.

How quickly did you resolve it in the present?

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