Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, May 5th

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, May 4thBy Erik Kain

It’s Monday and the birds are chirping and the sirens are wailing and the students are crunching their finals and the teachers are dreaming of summer and I’m still waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish Winds Of Winter and GTA6 has been delayed into 2026. What a day! What a year! You’re just lucky I didn’t list all the insane political shenanigans going on or we’d be here all day. Yes, I’m rambling. Yes, I plan on stopping now. After all, we 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 on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you’ll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives.

If you need a little help solving the Mini Crossword as fast as possible, read on for all of today’s answers.

Spoilers ahead!

ACROSS

1 — Thinnest U.S. coins at around 1/20th of an inch — DIMES

6 — “Sorry, already have plans” — ICANT

7 — Silent but deadly sort — NINJA (you were thinking farts, though, weren’t you?)

8 — George ____, pen name of the Victorian writer Mary Ann Evans — ELIOT

9 — “That’s great news!” — YAY

DOWN

1 — Wine pairing? — DINE

2 — In a chilly manner — ICILY

3 — Ending with kepto or ego — MANIAC

4 — Waiter’s “Hope you like the food!” — ENJOY

5 — Batting average, e.g. — STAT

This was pretty easy but some of the answers are . . . peculiar. Wine pairing would be cheese, maybe, or dish. But DINE? You don’t pair wine with DINE, though I suppose wine and a wine pairing are part of dining. There’s a bit of a food theme here with the waiter and already having plans. I imagine the waiter saying ENJOY to the NINJA who responds ICILY because they’re busy reading George ELIOT. This one took me 50 seconds.

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