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NYT\/Screenshot by CNET<\/p>\nLooking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for Wordle, The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.<\/p>\n
The Mini Crossword is a nice break from the tougher puzzles, and it takes only a fraction of the time of the vaunted, regular New York Times Crossword puzzle. <\/p>\n
Need some help with today\u2019s Mini Crossword? I thought it was a tough one. The clues for 6-Across and 7-Across are the same, but the answers aren\u2019t. And the answers for 4-Across and 8-Across go together, so you can\u2019t solve one without the other. Read on for all the answers.<\/p>\n
Mini across clues and answers<\/p>\n
1A clue: In shape
Answer: FIT<\/p>\n
4A clue: With 8-Across, four runs in baseball or four major wins in tennis
Answer: GRAND<\/p>\n
6A clue: Alternative to theirs
Answer: YOURS<\/p>\n
7A clue: Alternative to theirs
Answer: MINE<\/p>\n
8A clue: See 4-Across
Answer: SLAM<\/p>\n
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Mini down clues and answers<\/p>\n
1D clue: Counterpart of flora
Answer: FAUNA<\/p>\n
2D clue: When dreams occur during sleep, for short
Answer: INREM<\/p>\n
3D clue: Reasons for end zone celebrations: Abbr.
Answer: TDS<\/p>\n
4D clue: Facilities with treadmills
Answer: GYMS<\/p>\n
5D clue: Stir up, as waters
Answer: ROIL<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.
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