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These clues and answers are for the NYT Mini Crossword dated Monday, February 3, 2025. If you want to solve it yourself, start with the hints below; the complete Across and Down key follows.
Hints for the February 3 Mini
- Across 1: A package may contain one of these bathroom staples.
- Across 5: A sandwich cookie associated with “Twist, Lick, Dunk.”
- Across 6: The word that completes “bird ___” or “binge ___.”
- Across 8: A text abbreviation for laughing hard.
- Across 9: Something that goes around your waist.
- Down 1: One of the five horizontal lines in a Mini grid.
- Down 2: A dental-care brand.
- Down 3: A courteous way to say “Please, it would be my pleasure.”
- Down 4: The kind of news broadcast at 11 p.m.
- Down 7: A description that fits jalapeños and Death Valley.
Complete answer key
Spoilers below.
Across
- Unit of toilet paper: ROLL
- Cookie advertised with the slogan, “Twist, Lick, Dunk”: OREO
- Word after bird or binge: WATCH
- Amused text shorthand: LMAO
- What always goes to waist?: BELT
Down
- One of five in a Mini crossword: ROW
- Dental care brand: ORALB
- “Please, it would be my pleasure”: LET ME
- _____ news (11 p.m. broadcast): LOCAL
- Like jalapeños and Death Valley: HOT
Source: Parade’s February 3, 2025 NYT Mini Crossword guide by Larry Slawson, published February 3, 2025.
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