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Forbes
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Friday, June 20th
Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... More puzzle. In case you missed Wednesday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here: It's the last day of spring and the first day of summer. June 20th, the longest day of the year. It's also my birthday! I have birthday stuff to do, so let's dive right into this crossword! 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. Across 1A. Org. defending individual rights — starts with the first letter A 5A. Repeated words that lead up to … — starts with the first letter H 7A. What puzzle solvers don't look down on — starts with the first letter A 8A. … a big cheer! — starts with the first letter H 9A. Hathaway who starred in 'The Princess Diaries' — starts with the first letter A Down 1D. Garment on which it's totally acceptable to get food stains — starts with the first letter A 2D. Doing the dishes or mowing the lawn — starts with the first letter C 3D. Younger sister to Bart, older sister to Maggie — starts with the first letter L 4D. '… ___-daisy!' — starts with the first letter O 5D. Bit of laughter — starts with the first letter R 6D. Image of a compass, for Safari — starts with the first letter I Across 1A. Org. defending individual rights — ACLU 5A. Repeated words that lead up to … — HIPHIP 7A. What puzzle solvers don't look down on — ACROSS 8A. … a big cheer! — HOORAY 9A. Hathaway who starred in 'The Princess Diaries' — ANNE Down 1D. Garment on which it's totally acceptable to get food stains — APRON 2D. Doing the dishes or mowing the lawn — CHORE 3D. Younger sister to Bart, older sister to Maggie — LISA 4D. '… ___-daisy!' — OOPSY 5D. Bit of laughter — RAH 6D. Image of a compass, for Safari — ICON Today's Mini This wouldn't have taken me a full 2 minutes but I kept getting distracted. What can I say? Birthdays are like that. For the most part, these were pretty straightforward. HIP HIP HOORAY! My one mistake was putting in HOHO instead of HAHA and that threw me for a minute. But I got better! Have a great first day of summer, dearest puzzle solvers! 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!
CNET
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for June 19 #473- CNET
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is fun, but also tricky. A few of the answers were tough to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET's NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far Hint for today's Strands puzzle Today's Strands theme is: Life is a highway. If that doesn't help you, here's a clue: Heading out. Clue words to unlock in-game hints Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle's theme. If you're stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work: YARD, DRAY, PRIM, PRIMP, SIRE, COAT, COATS, TOME, TOMES, MOTE, MOTES, SEEN, LARD, GEMS. Answers for today's Strands puzzle These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers: GAMES, MOTEL, PHOTOS, SCENERY, PLAYLIST, AUDIOBOOK Today's Strands spangram The completed NYT Strands puzzle for June 19, 2025, #473. NYT/Screenshot by CNET Today's Strands spangram is ROADTRIP. To find it, look for the R that's four letters to the right on the bottom row, and wind up.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Wednesday, June 18th
Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... More puzzle. In case you missed Monday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here: It's Wednesday and we have a Mini Crossword to solve. This is a quick one, so let's dive right in! 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. Across 1A. Hit the stores — starts with the first letter S 5A. Cross one's fingers — starts with the first letter H 6A. Here's a thought! — starts with the first letter B 7A. Old episode — starts with the first letter R 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 8A. Request for a follow on social media — starts with the first letter A Down 1D. Tear to pieces — starts with the first letter S 2D. Be bad at throwing things away — starts with the first letter H 3D. Drug referenced by the magic poppy field in 'The Wizard of Oz' — starts with the first letter O 4D. Tubular pasta — starts with the first letter P 6D. Its sizes are measured in cups — starts with the first letter B Across 1A. Hit the stores — SHOP 5A. Cross one's fingers — HOPE 6A. Here's a thought! — BRAIN 7A. Old episode — RERUN 8A. Request for a follow on social media — ADDME Down 1D. Tear to pieces — SHRED 2D. Be bad at throwing things away — HOARD 3D. Drug referenced by the magic poppy field in 'The Wizard of Oz' — OPIUM 4D. Tubular pasta — PENNE 6D. Its sizes are measured in cups — BRA Today's Mini Crossword This one just went really well for me today. Everything I guessed ended up being correct without having to go back and fix anything. The one that stopped me in my tracks was at the very end. Measure with cups? BR... And then it dawned on me. BRA, of course. Silly me. 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!
The Verge
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Verge
The Atlantic is making a big push into games
Daily puzzle games are seemingly everywhere right now, and starting today, you'll be able to add a new stop to your puzzle rotation: The Atlantic. The publication is launching a new hub for its growing game offerings, including already available games like Bracket City and Caleb's Inferno Crossword Puzzle, as well as some new puzzles. You'll be able to access the hub on both the web and in The Atlantic's app. Caleb Madison, The Atlantic's director of games, gave The Verge a demo of most of the games available in the hub ahead of today's launch: Bracket City, which The Atlantic licensed earlier this year, requires you to solve clues nested in brackets that eventually resolve into a fun fact about that day in history. Stacks, a new game, is kind of like Tetris meets Wordle, Madison says. You have a bank of words that you have to place in the correct order, on top of letters already on the board, to form other words. In Fluxis, another new game, you try to figure out words that build off the previous word and incorporate some kind of characteristic. Madison showed me an example of needing to build an adjective off the word 'checkerboard' — he went with 'arduous.' Caleb's Inferno Crossword Puzzle, which is already included in the monthly Atlantic magazine and available online, is last game Madison showed me. Caleb's crossword is a narrow rectangle instead of a square, but as you move farther down the puzzle, the clues get more difficult to solve. Madison doesn't necessarily see The Atlantic's games as replacing your visits to other daily puzzles. 'I think people have a pretty ravenous diet for new games, so I don't think coming to The Atlantic precludes any of these other amazing games that are at The New York Times or Apple News or LinkedIn,' Madison says. 'What I feel like The Atlantic has to offer that's different from those publications is a little bit more of a bespoken, artisanal aesthetic.' Madison also tries to bring an 'aesthetic narrative component' to games to help them feel 'immersive and special.' Bracket City, for example, has some city-themed elements sprinkled throughout, like the 'fan mail' email being mayor@ Like with The New York Times, some aspects of The Atlantic 's games will only be available if you're a paid subscriber. Bracket City and all of its archives are free. The full archives for Stacks, Fluxis, and The Atlantic 's daily mini crossword will be behind a paywall, however; nonsubscribers will only have access to the three most recent puzzles for those games. All of the Caleb's Inferno crossword puzzles are exclusive to subscribers. Madison says he has 'a lot of plans' for more games, including long-form games of some kind. 'I'm trying to make no assumptions as to what that would look like and just forge forward creatively to see what a more layered day-to-day experience would be like.' He didn't want to give anything specific away, but he says, 'I am excited to innovate in the game space and bring unique and authentic, long-form game experiences to The Atlantic users and to people online.'
Forbes
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Tuesday, June 17th
In case you missed Monday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here: Words, words and more words. Amazing how many different kinds of puzzles we've come up with that revolve around words. The crossword is one of the oldest in modern times. The very first crossword puzzle was published on December 21, 1913 in the New York World newspaper and was originally called the FUN's Word-Cross Puzzle. It looked like this: I think you could safely call that a Saturday Mini Crossword puzzle, or somewhere between that and a regular-sized crossword. The diamond shape is interesting, but the fact that there are four letters that have no 'Across' or 'Down' associated with them even more so. A single word is used twice for an answer as well. See if you can solve it! I'll post the solutions below. The rules we abide by now were not fully formed in 1913. In any case, we have our own Mini to solve. 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. Across 1A. Boston Brahmin types — starts with the first letter W 6A. Look forward to — starts with the first letter A 7A. Stock market bounceback — starts with the first letter R 8A. Whimsically amusing — starts with the first letter D 9A. Hearing or sight — starts with the first letter S Down 1D. Voting districts — starts with the first letter W 2D. "Oh, I'm well ___!" — starts with the first letter A 3D. Establishment offering chemical treatments — starts with the first letter S 4D. Contents of a box labeled SMTWTFS — starts with the first letter D 5D. Focus of Vogue and Elle — starts with the first letter S Across 1A. Boston Brahmin types — WASPS 6A. Look forward to — AWAIT 7A. Stock market bounceback — RALLY 8A. Whimsically amusing — DROLL 9A. Hearing or sight — SENSE Down 1D. Voting districts — WARDS 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 2D. "Oh, I'm well ___!" — AWARE 3D. Establishment offering chemical treatments — SPA 4D. Contents of a box labeled SMTWTFS — DAYS 5D. Focus of Vogue and Elle — STYLE Today's Mini Screenshot: Erik Kain All told, not the hardest Mini of the week, but a pretty solid challenge. I guess I just don't know enough about Boston Brahmins to have figured out WASPS was the answer, but I filled in the blanks with WARDS, SALON and PILLS. Today's Mini made use of every box in the 5x5 grid. It took me a whopping 2:05. Here are the answers to the first-ever crossword puzzle: First crossword puzzle Credit: New York World 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!
