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Yesterday's NYT Mini Crossword Answers and Hints
Across
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EGGS is correct because sponge cake traditionally uses just three main ingredients: eggs, sugar, and flour. Eggs play a crucial role by providing structure and volume, as their whipped form incorporates air into the batter, giving sponge cake its light, airy texture.
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FLOUR is the solution because it is a fundamental ingredient in sponge cake recipes. Sponge cakes rely on flour to provide structure and texture, making it a key component.
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The answer is LUNGE because it describes a lower body exercise where one leg is stretched forward and the other back, creating a large step-like stance. This movement targets muscles like the quads, hamstrings, and glutes, perfectly aligning with the clue's description of positioning during the exercise.
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The term "First-stringers" refers to the best players in a team, those who are starters or top performers. "A TEAM" metaphorically represents this top-tier group, as the "A" signifies excellence or the best quality, aligning with the clue's meaning.
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The solution "TERRY" refers to terry cloth, a fabric with looped pile on both sides, known for its high absorbency and softness, making it ideal for towels. This clue directly describes the material most commonly used in manufacturing towels.
Down
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The clue, "Key just above D," refers to musical notes on a keyboard. The key immediately above D is D#, which is enharmonically equivalent to E-flat (E♭). Since crossword conventions prefer spelling out notes, the solution is EFLAT, representing the musical key above D.
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The clue "Butt muscle, informally" refers to the gluteus muscles, which are located in the buttocks. The informal, shortened term for these muscles is "GLUTE," making it the correct answer. The word "informally" hints at this casual abbreviation of the anatomical term.
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The clue "One who's completely toast" uses a pun. "Completely toast" metaphorically means doomed or beyond saving. A "goner" is someone in an inescapable, hopeless situation, aligning perfectly with the wordplay in the clue. It's a figurative way of saying they're done for.
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SUGAR is the solution because it is a fundamental ingredient in sponge cakes together with EGSS (ingredient #1) and FLOUR (ingredient #2). It serves to sweeten the batter and helps create the cake's light, airy texture by stabilizing the beaten eggs or incorporating air during mixing.
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Rémy Martin is a renowned French brand of cognac, a type of brandy specifically made in the Cognac region of France. The blank in the clue refers to the first name "Rémy," completing the brand name. The clue directly points to this famous cognac producer.
Yesterday’s Game Difficulty
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Top Clues from Yesterday’s Mini
Below is a selection of the most intriguing clues from yesterday’s NYT Mini Puzzle. These stood out for their clever wordplay, the things they taught us, or just the fun challenge they brought. Whether you missed them or only want to see why they caught our attention, here are our favorite clues that made solving yesterday’s puzzle fun and rewarding.
- First-stringers
- Key just above D
- Butt muscle, informally
- One who's completely toast
- ___ Martin (brand of cognac)
What is NYT The Mini Crossword?
NYT The Mini Crossword is a compact version of the New York Times Crossword puzzle. Usually 5 x 5, with larger grids on Saturdays, it offers mid-week equivalent difficulty clues with no progression over the week. It is accessible to anyone with or without a New York Times account. You can play it on nytimes.com/crosswords, The New York Times Games app (iOS and Android), and the Play tab of the New York Times News app. Games and All Access Subscribers can solve past Mini Crossword puzzles in the archive.
Daily Availability
Puzzles are accessible the evening before the publish date. Weekday and Saturday puzzles: 10 p.m. EST the previous day. Sunday puzzles: 6 p.m. EST on Saturday.
How to Play - Features and Tips
Fill white squares with letters to form intersecting words or phrases by solving clues in Across and Down columns. Read our guide to NYT Mini Mastery to learn how to read the different types of clues. Successfully completed puzzle triggers music and a congratulatory message.
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Arrow keys: Change direction within the same square, move in the direction of the arrow, jump back to the first blank in the word, or jump to the next clue.
- Spacebar: Clear the current square, advance, or toggle between Across and Down.
- Backspace (Delete on Macs): Remove words or a letter from a word.
- Tab key: Jump to the next clue.
- Shift + Tab keys: Jump to the previous clue.
- Escape: Enter Rebus mode.
- Pen and Pencil Modes. Switch between pen and pencil modes by selecting the respective icon. Letters in pen mode are black; in pencil mode, gray.
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Black: Default pen mode entries.
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