Looking for help with today’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the puzzle.

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It’s not quite Sunday yet, but the Sunday Mini Crossword is here. This is a somewhat slimmer crossword than Saturday’s, but I actually found it a bit harder. That’s just bad luck (or good luck, since I basically knew everything in yesterday’s) and sometimes my lack of pop culture knowledge sets me back. In any case, read on for hints and answers.

Looking for yesterday’s NYT Mini Crossword? Check out our hints and answers right here.

The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, it’s free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive.

Spoilers ahead!

How To Solve Today’s Mini Crossword

Before we get to the answers, here’s the first letter for each word in today’s Mini.

Okay, onto the answers! Remember, spoilers ahead!

Across

1A. Make chicken? — SCARE

6A. Stretchy glove material — LATEX

7A. Island that’s the “A” of the so-called ABC Islands — ARUBA

8A. Gently play, as a guitar — STRUM

9A. Helpful link for a daily Spelling Bee solver — HINTS

Down

1D. What’s typed instead of a question mark if you forget to press shift — SLASH

2D. Rapper Playboi ___ — CARTI

3D. Take ___ for the worse — A TURN

4D. Make a counterargument against — REBUT

5D. Midterms and finals — EXAMS

Where I got stalled by in today’s Mini: 1-Across. I was thinking of making chicken to eat, not making someone a chicken by scaring them. 2-Down. I don’t know anything about Playboi Carti, but I’m curious about all the Carti’s and Cardi’s and Lil XY and Z’s. Hip-hop naming trends are well outside my wheelhouse. These slowed me down enough that today’s Mini took me a whopping 1:27. Oof.

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