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Forbes
07-06-2025
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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Saturday, June 7th
Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... More puzzle. In case you missed Friday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here: Paul Tassi and I traded weeks for the NYT Mini Crossword guides while I was away in Scotland, so I'm taking over for him this week. That means you're stuck with me for two weeks straight. Lucky you! It's Saturday, which means we have our biggest and most daunting Mini of the week to solve. Let's get right to it, shall we? 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! Across Down Here are all the words on the grid: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Today's Mini Crossword As you can see, this one took me awhile. 3:28 to be exact. I really struggled with a lot of these, only filling them in after I'd knocked out easier ones like 8-Across (ARE) and 12-Across (STOOL). 1-Across was also pretty straightforward (MAT) but others less so. I was thinking CHECK for what you'd request at the end of a restaurant meal, but TOGOBOX makes sense. 'Royal' sleeping options was less of a clue and more of a headfake. It didn't occur to me for the longest time that the puzzle meant KING and QUEEN beds, though it's obvious in retrospect. Clearly, I'm a little rusty. How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. If you also play Wordle, I write guides about that as well. You can find those and all my TV guides, reviews and much more here on my blog. Thanks for reading!
Forbes
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Saturday, June 7th
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Friday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: I'm back for real this time. I tackled a couple of my colleague Paul Tassi's Strands puzzles earlier this week as he attended to some big family business, but now it's my turn to guide you through this week's uncovering of words. It's the weekend! Let's dive right in. Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: I am what I am Hint: Unfortunately, this is not a reference to Popeye the Sailor Man. Clue: This is actually about you. Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: BEYOURSELF Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Screenshot: Erik Kain I immediately started looking for POPEYE and words that might go with POPEYE because his whole schtick is 'I am what I am and that's all that I am . . . I'm Popeye the sailor man!' but alas, this was not the case. The words were all about the self, and when I found that word I tracked it backwards to BEYOURSELF, today's spangram. Most of these were pretty easy. HUMAN, SOUL, PERSON. The trickier ones were MORTAL and INDIVIDUAL, but overall this was one of the easier Strands I've tackled recently. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Forbes
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Wednesday, June 4th
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Tuesday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Hello dearest Strandistarians. I'm once again taking over for my colleague Paul Tassi today in our quest to uncover words in your daily Strands puzzle. Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: Monster quest Hint: Sasquatch type beasts. Clue: Nessie, for instance. Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: CRYPTIDS Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Screenshot: Erik Kain Cryptids—today's spangram—are species that are rumored to exist but cannot be proven scientifically. It's possible that a KRAKEN is somewhere in the depths of the ocean, however unlikely, or that BIGFOOT roams the wilderness, perhaps befriending a JACKALOPE or two. I got a couple of these pretty quickly, but was pretty stumped for awhile. YETI wasn't too bad, but even though I suspected JACKALOPE it took me a good bit to find it as well as MOTHMAN. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Forbes
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Tuesday, June 3rd
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Looking for Monday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: It's not my normal day for Strands but my colleague Paul Tassi has found himself indisposed. I'm hopping in for the night because somebody has to help uncover these words! Let's solve this Strands! Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: That's proprietary! FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Hint: When a brand is so popular it becomes a noun. Clue: Think tissues, hot tubs and the like. Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: TRADEMARKED Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Strands I found the first couple words instantly today: KLEENEX and JACUZZI right at the top, and then TRADEMARKED right after that. The last few were trickier. This was also somewhat educational. If you didn't know CHAPSTICK was a brand, for instance. Or POPSICLE. These are the types of trademarked words that are just so commonplace in the English language, they become interchangeable with the product itself. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Forbes
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Fri day, May 9th
In case you missed Thursday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here: We've come to the end of the line for your humble NYT Mini Crossword guide. I sign off for the next two weeks, though you'll be in good hands with my colleagues, Kris Holt and Paul Tassi. I'll be back at the end of May, and will be penning my Wordle guides and various other puzzle assists in the meantime. Have a lovely weekend! Let's solve this Mini, shall we? 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 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. If you need a little help solving the Mini Crossword as fast as possible, read on for all of today's answers. Spoilers ahead! 1 — Humpty Dumpty in many illustrations — EGG 4 — Cartoon bear who wears a red shirt and no pants — POOH 6 — Collection of world maps — ATLAS 8 — Counterpart of 'adios' — HOLA 9 — [See circled letters] — WOW 1 — Clean water org — EPA 2 — Subculture with black clothing — GOTH 3 — 'When they ___' (start of a memorable Michelle Obama line) — GOLOW 5 — Angel topper — HALO 7 — It has sharp teeth — SAW Today's Mini Credit: Erik Kain This was an interesting puzzle because of the additional circles along the middle three rows. Cobbling those together you get OOHLALA which is the hint you need for 9-Across, WOW. A lot of these were easy, which made getting to that point easy. Everyone knows Humpty Dumpty is an egg who falls and shatters into a million little pieces, much to the dismay of the king, who bafflingly sends both his men and their horses to put him back together again. Not sure a horse's hooves are well-suited to the task. Of all the various anthropomorphic talking bears out there, few wear pants, but only one wears a red shirt: Winnie-the-POOH! And an ATLAS is very obviously a collection of world maps. You don't really need to know much Spanish to get HOLA as the yin to ADIOS's yang, either. And by the time you've plugged all these in you basically have the downs. This one took me 1:15. How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder If you also play Wordle, I write guides about that as well. You can find those and all my TV guides, reviews and much more here on my blog. Thanks for reading!
