Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, April 14th

In case you missed Sunday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:

ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Sunday, April 13thBy Erik Kain

Well it’s Monday all over again, and we’re all back to work, though I generally find my Friday-Sunday is a lot busier than the rest of the work week. For everyone out there working nine-to-five, M-F, however, it’s a return to the old chopping block. We also have a Mini Crossword to solve.

The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, it’s free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive.

Spoilers ahead!

ACROSS

1- Uneaten part of toast, often — CRUST

6- Like stud muffins — HUNKY

7- Prepare for use, as a marker — UNCAP

8- Nick of “48 Hours” — NOLTE

9- Strike zone’s lower boundary — KNEES

DOWN

1- Alternative to a chip, in the baking aisle — CHUNK

2- Kind of sentence that keeps going and going, it should have been made into two sentences — RUNON (hahaha)

3- Cousin’s dad — UNCLE

4- Spin out on the ice, say — SKATE

5- Uses a keyboard — TYPES

Today’s trickier words were tricky on purpose. Prepare for use, as a marker didn’t sound, at first, like a marker you draw with. Likewise, “spin out on the ice” makes me think of a car spinning out on the ice, not doing spins on the ice like you would on skates. 1-Across was straightforward enough, unless you glazed over the baking aisle bit, like I did, in which case you were thinking about chips, like the tortilla chips I just ate as a snack, not chocolate chips. This one took me a bit—1:41 to be exact—just because I kept stumbling on these trickier ones, and other little gaps in my knowledge, like 48 Hours, which I had no idea had Nick N0lte in it. Hunky crust!

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