Today's NYT Mini Crossword clues and answers for Tuesday, September 10

If you missed Monday's NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:

ForbesToday's NYT Mini Crossword clues and answers for Monday, September 9From Paul Tassi

The NYT Mini is a quick and easy version of the newspaper's longer-running crossword. Most days there are between three and five clues in each direction on a 5×5 grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

In contrast to its bigger brother, the NYT Mini The crossword puzzle is free to play on the New York Times website or the NYT Games app, but you will need a 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 days of the week grid in under a minute. But sometimes I can't quite decipher a clue or two and have to give the answer away.

To prevent this from happening to you, here is the NYT Mini Crossword puzzle solutions (Of course there are spoilers):

NYT Mini Crossword Clues and Answers

ABOVE

1) What a phisher might try to get you to click – LINK

5) “___ Copperhead,” novel by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize – DEMON

6) Act melodramatically – EMOTE

7) One just rushed past? – MAUS

8) Suspicious of – ONTO

DOWN

1) Fruit to treat scurvy – LEMON

2) “See you later!” – IMOUT

3) “Quite the opposite!” – NOTSO

4) Bending the body part – KNEE

5) Submitting music to a recording studio – DEMO

This was a pretty difficult puzzle today, I thought. It took me almost three minutes to complete, while the last ones took me less than a minute. Lots of 4-5 letter words this time and no 3s at all, which is rare. I made a mistake on the Phisher puzzle because I said BAIT and not LINK, and I thought Suspicious of was WARY and not ONTO, so that confused me for a while. I also had to cheat and look up DEMON COPPERHEAD, since I'd really never heard of that book. Seems like an interesting read! How did you get on today?

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