Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Saturday, December 28th

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

It’s the last weekend of 2024. These are the final Mini Crosswords we’ll solve before 2025 arrives this coming Wednesday. It’s hard to believe! The year has gone by fast. It’s been rather a blur, actually. Here’s to hoping next year is one to savor. For now, we have a crossword 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.

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

Spoilers ahead!

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ACROSS

1 — French body of water — LAC

4— Relating to the Vatican — PAPAL

6 — Self-serve station with salsa and shells — TACOBAR

8 — Way, way, way back — AGESAGO

9 — Totally clobber — DESTROY

10 — Sheet read before playing a new board game — RULES

11 — Vet's patient — PET

DOWN

1 — Ties, as hiking boots — LACESUP

2 — One of 12 depicted in da Vinci's "The Last Supper" — APOSTLE

3 — Nightclub such as the Moulin Rouge — CABARET

4 — Buzzing device for an on-call doctor — PAGER

5 — Nigerian city that's Africa's most populous (21+ million) — LAGOS

6 — Teensy-weensy bit — TAD

7 — __ G. Biv — ROYGBIV

Not the trickiest Saturday Mini Crossword of all time, but a few of these threw me for a loop. I had no idea LAGOS was that big, but then again I admit to a great deal of ignorance when it comes to the urban centers of the African continent. Others were quite a bit easier, such as RULES and PET. I was more stumped by PAGER than by CABARET. One rarely thinks of those now-antiquated devices in an era of smartphones. Overall, this took me 2:45 today, though I had to pause a couple times to deal with other stuff.

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