‘NYT Mini’ Clues And Answers For Tuesday, March 18

In case you missed Monday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:

Forbes‘NYT Mini’ Clues And Answers For Monday, March 17By Paul Tassi

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper’s larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you’ll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives.

The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I try to beat the standard weekday grid in less than a minute. But sometimes I can’t quite figure out one or two clues and need to reveal the answer.

To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword answers (spoilers lie ahead, of course):

NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers

ACROSS

1) “Dude! Come on!” – BRUH
5) San Antonio attraction to “remember” – ALAMO
6) Recurring Stallone role – RAMBO
7) Stream – CREEK
8) Hudson after whom the Hudson River is named – HENRY

DOWN

1) Loudly play, as a speaker – BLARE
2) Dish that might come with a spoon and chopsticks – RAMEN
3) Raw ___, color in the Crayola Hall of Fame – UMBER
4) Something “played” to avoid class – HOOKY
5) Eyebrow shape – ARCH

Alright this one threw me for a loop in a few places. Namely, Stallone’s big role could be either RAMBO or ROCKY as both fit into the same space and start with R, so that messed things up. I had BLAST instead of BLARE for music most of the time which was a problem. Elsewhere, RAW UMBER is not exactly something that immediately came to mind, despite coloring with a whole lot of Crayola products these past decades.

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