Today's mini crossword solutions and clues by The New York Times, published on June 10th.
Guide to Today's NYT Mini Crossword (June 9th)
Welcome back, crossword aficionados! Today's Mini is here to bust boredom, even if you're stuck indoors. Let's dive in, shall we?
The NYT Mini is a bite-sized version of the renowned NYT Crossword, designed for a quick and entertaining weekday challenge. Unlike its bigger sibling, the NYT Mini doesn’t require a subscription to The New York Times and can be played on the web or the app, with the app needed for accessing the archive.
Spoilers ahead! Here's your mini cheat sheet:
Across
- Trailhead displays - MAPS
- Pulitzer-winning 2024 novel - JAMES
- Sci-fi invader - ALIEN
- Thin strands - WISPS
- Attitude - SASS
Down
- Michelle Obama’s daughter - MALIA
- A bit off - ASKEW
- Easter marshmallows - PEEPS
- I.R.S. IDs - SSNS
- ’75 film with a massive shark - JAWS
JAWS went into 4-Down, AMISS landed in 3-Down before I realized my scatterbrained self had my words in the wrong spots. If you didn't make such rookie mistakes, this Mini should be a piece of cake!
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Enrichment: The NYT Mini Crossword is a compact, daily puzzle launched to cater to a broader, mobile-first audience. It serves as a quick brain exercise, leveraging the popularity of mini puzzles in mobile apps and social media. Unlike the main NYT Crossword with its larger, more complex grid and challenging clues, the Mini is a 5x5 grid designed to be solved in just a few minutes.
The Mini’s success led to its becoming a staple of the NYT’s Games section, alongside the classic daily crossword and other puzzles. It features concise, playful, pop-culture clues—compared to the standard crossword’s complex, wordplay, general-knowledge clues. Subscribing to the Times Games section grants access to the Mini’s archive and other puzzles, but the current day’s Mini is available free to all readers.
Today's NYT Mini Crossword provides a bite-sized challenge, perfect for a quick and entertaining break, even on social media. Among the clues, you'll find hints for the Pulitzer-winning 2024 novel that reimagined "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from the perspective of Jim, Michelle Obama's daughter Malia, and displays at a trailhead, which is a little out of whack.
