NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today: Clues/Hints December 10
Published on: December 9, 2024 at 9:45 am
*As you go through our NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today, you can tally each of your entries and see how you have fared.
The NYT Crossword Puzzle is extremely famous but if you are hard-pressed for time, you will be much amused by its highly entertaining and shorter alternative which is called Mini Crossword. Playing NYT Minis is not that difficult and sometimes you can solve a puzzle in just a couple of minutes. And if you get stuck for any reason, the alternatives in the lifesaver icon at the top of your puzzle will most probably bail you out of your predicament.
Note: NYT releases a new Mini Crossword puzzle at 10 p.m. EST from Sunday to Friday and 6 p.m. EST on Saturday.
How To Play NYT Mini Crossword
You will be required to follow the clues for the Across and Down columns and enter letters in the white squares that will help you form words or phrases that overlap each other.
How will you know whether you have finished the puzzle?
If you finish a puzzle, you will hear a music and see a congratulatory message on your screen. If you do not see a message even on filling up the entire grid, it means there is an incorrect entry somewhere. A blue star signifies the end of an NYT Mini Crossword.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Arrow keys - It is with the arrow keys that you can choose a new direction within a square, move in the direction pointed by an arrow, and jump to either the first square in a word or the next clue.
Spacebar - With spacebar, you can switch between Across and Down columns.
Backspace (Delete on Macs) - It helps you remove one or more letters from a word.
Tab - It lets you move to the next clue.
Shift + Tab - With this keyboard shortcut, you can return to the previous clue.
Escape - The Escape button allows you to enter the Rebus mode and fill in multiple letters in a box.
NYT Mini Crossword is generally in the default pen mode wherein the letters are black in color. As you select the pencil icon, you will enter the pencil mode and the color of the letters will turn from black to gray. And the one that you confirm with Check will be blue in color.
NYT mini crossword Hints: [Revealed]
When you play NYT Mini Crossword, you will find that there are multiple options to help you out when you are not able to make the right entry in a cell. At the top of every puzzle, there is a lifesaver icon that provides you with the following options:
Clear – You can wipe out the whole puzzle and start again.
Reveal – True to its name, this option reveals the right answer for a cell, an entire across or down column, or the whole puzzle.
Check – This option is meant to check a cell, an across or down column, or the whole puzzle. When the autocheck option is on, you will see that it will automatically check a cell as you enter a letter in it.
NYT Mini Crossword Clues
The Across and Down clues could require you to fill in a missing word, find one word for an instruction, enter a synonym, look for an answer to a question, etc.
NYT mini crossword Answers: [Revealed]
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword answer i.e. for December 10 is as follows:
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At the top right of an NYT puzzle, you will see a lifesaver icon that has 3 useful components to assist you but here we will talk about one of them i.e. the auto-check option. Autocheck will highlight your wrong entries by marking the incorrect letters. Sometimes, you may just commit a typo error that the auto-check feature can help you rectify.
Don’t jump into interpreting clues
Don’t be hasty in interpreting clues as that is where you may fall into the trap set for you. Often, while reading a clue, you need to think out of the box. You can expect such tricky clues toward the end of a week. The moment you see a clue that is grammatically incorrect, you must put your thinking cap on.