Looking for help with today’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? This guide covers the Friday, January 3, 2025 grid. The answers are below, so stop here if you want to solve it without spoilers.
Across answers
- 1 Across — FLOW: “Just go with it!”
- 5 Across — AIRES: “Buenos ___, Argentina”
- 7 Across — CABAL: “Group of conspirators”
- 8 Across — ERIVO: “‘Wicked’ star Cynthia”
- 9 Across — STEW: “Irish ___, dish that might be made with a pint of Guinness”
Down answers
- 1 Down — FACE: “Confront, as facts”
- 2 Down — LIARS: “You can’t trust their stories”
- 3 Down — ORBIT: “Move like a planet”
- 4 Down — WEAVE: “Salon job involving hair extensions”
- 6 Down — SLOW: “Not busy, business-wise”
About this puzzle
This is the Mini published for Friday, January 3, 2025. Erik Kain’s Forbes guide appeared the previous evening, January 2, and reports that he completed the puzzle in 35 seconds; that is his personal solve time, not a general benchmark.
Kain’s guide said the puzzle was playable on the web or in the app and that archive access required the app at the time. That is historical information from January 2025, not confirmation of NYT Games’ current access terms.
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