Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, June 9th

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, June 8thBy Erik Kain

It may not be Monday just yet, but that won’t stop the New York Times from publishing their Monday crossword puzzles. While most Mini Crosswords and the regular Crossword are published the evening prior, Sunday and Monday puzzles go live in the afternoon. Today’s is a full square grid with no black spaces. Let’s fill it in!

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! Read on for all of today’s Mini Crossword answers.

Across

1A. Flower that sounds like a parental nickname — POPPY

6A. Savvy — AWARE

7A. Birthplace of Buddhism — INDIA

8A. Stretches outside of a party? — LIMOS

9A. Button next to “Select” on old Nintendo controllers — START

Down

1D. Beach buckets — PAILS

2D. Take responsibility for something — OWN

3D. Lakshmi of “Top Chef” — PADMA

4D. Previous — PRIOR

5D. Ingredient that makes bread rise — YEAST

Here are all the words on the grid:

I’m not sure I like the clue “Savvy” for AWARE but other than that, this was a reasonably straightforward crossword. I don’t know “Top Chef” so I had no idea Lakshmi’s first name was PADMA but I filled that in along with 6-Across to wrap things up. A lot of the other stuff I knew — START on a Nintendo, INDIA as the birthplace of Buddhism, YEAST makes bread rise, etc. — but it took me a minute to come up with POPPY and LIMOS, and OWNIT was one I basically had to fill in with other words. This took me 1:33.

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