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Hints for the April 10, 2025 Mini
These clue prompts can help you work through the grid without revealing every entry at once. The clue wording below is reproduced from published answer guides; it is not presented as an official NYT transcript.
- Across: Think of thin trails of smoke, the legal undoing of a marriage, a church’s pointed roof, cute softness, and prices or cliffs that are sharply inclined.
- Down: Consider orchard insects, someone’s opinion, a cutting or sarcastic tone, removing something, and what a lullaby may bring on.
Complete answer key
Spoilers follow.
Across
| No. | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smoke tendrils | WISPS |
| 6 | Undo, as “I do’s” | ANNUL |
| 7 | What’s the point of church? | SPIRE |
| 8 | Adorable flab | PUDGE |
| 9 | Like some prices and precipices | STEEP |
Down
| No. | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple orchard pests | WASPS |
| 2 | Two cents, so to speak | INPUT |
| 3 | Like a sarcastic dig | SNIDE |
| 4 | Get rid of | PURGE |
| 5 | Succumb to a lullaby | SLEEP |
How to identify the right date
The weekday in the title identifies the 2025 puzzle, not a puzzle from 2026. Parade’s guide is dated Thursday, April 10, 2025, and Forbes published its guide on April 9 for the Thursday puzzle. Their answer keys agree. Parade’s April 10, 2025 guide and Forbes’ April 9 guide are the corroborating published answer guides; an official NYT puzzle record was not available in those sources.
Playing the Mini and finding older puzzles
Forbes described The Mini as playable on the NYT website or NYT Games app, with older puzzles in the archive requiring an NYT Games subscription at the time of its April 9, 2025 article. That is a dated access description, not a guarantee of current availability or subscription terms; check the NYT Games site or app for the latest details.
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