NYT Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Saturday, December 21

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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.

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

NYT The Mini Crossword logo.

Across

  • Zap with a beam of light – LASE
  • ___ solstice, the shortest day of the year – WINTER
  • 100 years – CENTURY
  • 100 years, for Jimmy Carter – AGE
  • Roll with it! – DIE
  • Sports newbies – ROOKIES
  • Like each day relative to the day before it, for the next six months – LONGER
  • Eugene V. ___, five-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America – DEBS

Down

  • First blank on a form, maybe – LINEONE
  • Unwanted crawler on a kitchen counter – ANT
  • Prepares for a test – STUDIES
  • More spooky – EERIER
  • “Everything cool between us?” – WEGOOD
  • Some loaves of bread … or a homophone for what they do in the oven – RYES
  • Astronomer Sagan whose papers are archived in the Library of Congress – CARL
  • Spy org. in “Bridge of Spies” – KGB






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