Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Saturday, November

In case you missed Friday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is 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.

The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I try to beat the standard weekday grid in less than a minute. But sometimes I can't quite figure out one or two clues and need to reveal the answer.

To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword answers (spoilers lie ahead, of course):

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NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers

ACROSS

1) Car puller in San Francisco - CABLE

6) Did a sommelier's duty - POURED

7) Darts or trivia - BARGAMES

8) Outrage - IRE

9) Maria ___ Trapp in "The Sound of Music" - VON

10) She's purrty darn cute! — KITTEN

12) Dining destination - EATERY

13) Like a good picnic spot or a bad business deal - SHADY

DOWN

1) Civil rights leader ___ Scott King - CORETTA

2) Third-quarter month: Abbr. - AUG

3) Heroic attribute - BRAVERY

4) Like some citrus-imbued water - LEMONY

5) Garden in Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" - EDEN

6) Persona non grata - PARIAH

7) Two-wheelers - BIKES

11) One of two "excellent" adventurers of film - TED

Well today’s Mini was not so mini at all, it turns out, full of five, six and seven letter words in a board that is much larger than normal, meaning this puzzle may have been a bit harder to solve, and I’d say it was. The individual clues were not that bad but it was hard to piece some together. BARGAME threw me for a while until I realized it was two words. I thought the “good picnic or bad business deal spot” clue for SHADY was clever. How did you do?

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