Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, October 28th

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

I had such a busy and distracting day that I completely spaced doing the Mini Crossword today when it went live at 3pm! My apologies for the late guide. Some days—and weekends, and weeks—are just like that, I suppose. I am an underwater juggler with too many balls in the air. Or something. In any case, let’s solve this Crossword!

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.

One good tactic with crossword puzzles is to try to get as many ACROSS as possible first and then you’ll find a lot of the DOWN are already done—or vice versa if the ones ACROSS are trickier.

Spoilers ahead, obviously. Skip ahead for the image of today’s solved puzzle.

1 — [I’m SHOCKED!] — GASP

5 — Last multiple choice option, often — OTHER

7 — Material for a mason — STONE

8 — Dye used in many South Asian wedding celebrations — HENNA

9 — Animal on an “Xing” sign — DEER

1 — “Isn’t that something?” — GOSH

2 — Tagged with an “@” sign on social media — ATTED

3 — Emitted light — SHONE

4 — Tubular noodles — PENNE

6 — Backside — REAR

Mini Crossword

I struggled with this one more than I should have, largely because I did it late and my little grey cells weren’t as awake as they are earlier in the day. Also because sometimes when you just can’t puzzle out the first few words right away the rest of the crossword becomes much more of a challenge. I got STONE first and then guessed HENNA. GOSH was obvious at this point, as was OTHER. This opened up REAR for 6-Down. I guessed PENNE next, then DEER and one-by-one everything fell into place.

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!

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