Here are the answers to the Saturday, December 27, 2025 NYT Mini Crossword. Spoilers follow: the puzzle’s Across and Down solutions are listed below.
Saturday, December 27, 2025 NYT Mini answers
Read the clues first if you want a hint, or use the answer key to check the grid.
Across
- Fashionable: HIP
- Product sold on The Office: PAPER
- One writing a performance review: MANAGER
- With 5-Down, redundant synonym of “outcome”: END
- Quiet ___ mouse: AS A (entered as ASA)
- Gives constant compliments, in slang: GASES UP (entered as GASESUP)
- Ski mountain bump: MOGUL
- Uneasy feeling: ANGST
Down
- Personally involved: HANDS ON (entered as HANDSON)
- Hoppy beer, for short: IPA
- Mythical horse whose name is an anagram of 10-Across: PEGASUS
- Last word in the palindromic sentence “A man, a plan, a canal …”: PANAMA
- See 8-Across: RESULT
- Ryan of When Harry Met Sally…: MEG
- Genre for Playboi Carti and Cardi B: RAP
- Something in an Easter basket: EGG
The answer list is corroborated by Forbes and WordDB.
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