Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Monday, December 30th

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

The end is nigh. The end of 2024, in any case. We have today and then Tuesday we celebrate New Year’s Eve. In years past, that meant a great deal of merrymaking with friends, which often resulted in a rather hungover New Year’s Day. Now that I’m older and wiser, I’ll likely just watch a movie or play some video games and turn in early. Well, maybe not early but gone are the days of partying until daybreak. In any case, this is one of the last Mini Crosswords of the year. Let’s solve it!

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.

Answers to today’s Mini Crossword below . . . .

Spoilers ahead!

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ACROSS

1 — Rudely straightforward — BLUNT

6 — Where you might see half-inch ticks? — RULER

7 — A little less than "mega" — EXTRA

8 — Verbose — WORDY

9 — Unit of sunshine — RAY

DOWN

1 — Steeped concoction — BREW

2 — Swanky Vegas hotel resembling an Egyptian pyramid — LUXOR

3 — A little more than "mega" — ULTRA

4 — Quirkily enthusiastic about science, maybe — NERDY

5 — Breakfast-in-bed convenience — TRAY

Sometimes two words can fit nicely in a crossword and I pick the wrong one and it throws off my entire game. Today, everything I guessed was right on the money, from BLUNT to LUXOR, ULTRA to EXTRA. Even NERDY turned out to be exactly what I thought, and this whole thing only took 52 seconds.

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