NYT's The Mini crossword answers for May 3 (2024)

FAQs

How do I access the nyt mini crossword today? ›

You can play the Mini at nytimes.com/games, in the The New York Times Games app (iOS and Android), and in the Play tab of the New York Times News app.

A rebus can be a letter, number or symbol that represents a word, but in many crosswords, the rebus will be a word or group of letters that need to be written inside a single square.

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

Just a heads up, the daily mini-puzzle resets the night before it's published. For instance, Saturday and weekday puzzles reset at 10 p.m. EST the day before, and Sunday puzzles are ready to solve from 6 p.m. EST on Saturday.

Navigate to the Archive tab at the bottom of the Games app homepage. Select either The Crossword or The Mini. Select the month and year you would like to see puzzles from.

Difficulty: Easy (18s) What a Mini! Two pairs of themed fills in OLD NEWS and ONE TWO make this an effective puzzle.

That's because The Mini and Sodoku reset their puzzles at 10:00PM on weekdays, , and 6:00 PM on weekends. This can be extremely misleading as the notion is that there is one puzzle per day, but the puzzles switch before the day is over or sometimes in the middle of the day.

Each puzzle should be read from top to bottom, left to right. The sounds indicated by the pictures are not always direct hom*ophones for the answer. For example, the images of LLL, a boy, and a chin could combine together to make Hell's Kitchen even though the sounds aren't quite exact.

Joel fa*gliano (born 1992) is an American puzzle creator. He is known for his work at The New York Times, where he writes the paper's Mini Crossword.

What do the circles on the nyt mini crossword mean? ›

The letters that will appear in the circles when the Answers are written in spell out words related to the puzzle's theme. the letters in squares that contain circles spell out words related to the theme either when read consecutively or when rearranged to form theme-related words.

Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is 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. The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all.

Step 1: Click on the square in which you want to enter a rebus. Tap the More key on the bottom left-hand side of the screen. Step 2: Tap the Rebus key on the bottom right-hand side of the screen. This will open a larger square in which you can type multiple letters.

"How's it goin'?"

The answer is sup.

Players can access a wide range of games in the Games tab, including: The Crossword - Access to the Daily Crossword puzzles the evening before their release in print. The Mini Crossword. Wordle.

More than enough

The answer is Ample.