Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Tuesday, June 17th

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

ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, June 16thBy Erik Kain

Words, words and more words. Amazing how many different kinds of puzzles we’ve come up with that revolve around words. The crossword is one of the oldest in modern times. The very first crossword puzzle was published on December 21, 1913 in the New York World newspaper and was originally called the FUN’s Word-Cross Puzzle. It looked like this:

I think you could safely call that a Saturday Mini Crossword puzzle, or somewhere between that and a regular-sized crossword. The diamond shape is interesting, but the fact that there are four letters that have no “Across” or “Down” associated with them even more so. A single word is used twice for an answer as well. See if you can solve it! I’ll post the solutions below. The rules we abide by now were not fully formed in 1913. In any case, we have our own Mini 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! Here’s the first letter of each word.

Across

1A. Boston Brahmin types — starts with the first letter W

6A. Look forward to — starts with the first letter A

7A. Stock market bounceback — starts with the first letter R

8A. Whimsically amusing — starts with the first letter D

9A. Hearing or sight — starts with the first letter S

Down

1D. Voting districts — starts with the first letter W

2D. “Oh, I’m well ___!” — starts with the first letter A

3D. Establishment offering chemical treatments — starts with the first letter S

4D. Contents of a box labeled SMTWTFS — starts with the first letter D

5D. Focus of Vogue and Elle — starts with the first letter S

Spoilers ahead! Here are all the answers.

Across

1A. Boston Brahmin types — WASPS

6A. Look forward to — AWAIT

7A. Stock market bounceback — RALLY

8A. Whimsically amusing — DROLL

9A. Hearing or sight — SENSE

Down

1D. Voting districts — WARDS

2D. “Oh, I’m well ___!” — AWARE

3D. Establishment offering chemical treatments — SPA

4D. Contents of a box labeled SMTWTFS — DAYS

5D. Focus of Vogue and Elle — STYLE

Here are all the words on the grid:

All told, not the hardest Mini of the week, but a pretty solid challenge. I guess I just don’t know enough about Boston Brahmins to have figured out WASPS was the answer, but I filled in the blanks with WARDS, SALON and PILLS. Today’s Mini made use of every box in the 5×5 grid. It took me a whopping 2:05.

Here are the answers to the first-ever crossword puzzle:

How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.

If you also play Wordle, I write guides about that as well. You can find those and all my TV guides, reviews and much more here on my blog. Thanks for reading!