Looking for the Sunday, January 12, 2025 NYT Mini Crossword? The reported grid has five Across and five Down answers. Spoiler warning: the complete solution list is below.
Hints for the January 12 Mini
If you want help with a single entry before seeing the full grid, these clue-specific answers are reported by Paul Tassi in Forbes’s January 11, 2025 answer guide.
- “2019 flop whose Variety review began ‘Nine may not be enough lives for some of the stars to live down their involvement in this …’” — CATS
- “Hawaiian greeting” — ALOHA
- “Wrinkle-removing treatment” — BOTOX
- “Entanglement” — SNARL
- “Pure joy” — GLEE
- “They’re hard to hail in the rain” — CABS
- “‘___ came a spider / Who sat down beside her …’” — ALONG
- “Sum” — TOTAL
- “Place for beachcombing” — SHORE
- “Rod with wheels” — AXLE
Full answer list
The clue-and-answer transcription below is attributed to Forbes; it is secondary-source reporting rather than an official NYT puzzle page.
Quick Recap
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Across
- CATS
- ALOHA
- BOTOX
- SNARL
- GLEE
Down
- CABS
- ALONG
- TOTAL
- SHORE
- AXLE
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