NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today With Clues, December 6

* Go through our NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today to see the right entries in today's puzzle.

The NYT Mini Crossword is a classic puzzle with simple rules to follow. To finish the whole game, you need to follow the clues for the down and across columns that should not be too much of an ask if you try sincerely. New York Times readily releases a new puzzle every day.

An NYT Mini is a 5 by 5, meaning the words in it cannot be longer than five letters. An answer can also be a combination of two words. These small crosswords aren't as difficult as their longer counterparts that NYT also releases regularly but they are by no means a cake walk. NYT Mini Crosswords tend to get tougher toward the end of a week and hence, it is important to know the tricks that are followed to solve these puzzles.

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.

Mini Timer

You can use the timer to check how long it takes for you to complete a puzzle. You have the option to Pause and Continue and when you clear a puzzle, the timer will restart. There is also an option to hide the timer that you will find in the puzzle settings at the top of a puzzle.

Note: NYT Mini Crossword games are released at 10 p.m. EST from Sunday to Friday and 6 p.m. EST on Saturday. [RETAIN]

NYT Mini Crossword Hints

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.

Free NYT Mini Crossword Answer Today

Here is the answer to NYT Mini Crossword for today, December 5:

NYT Games Subscription

With an NYT Games Subscription, you will have access to every New York Times word game and logic puzzle, which you can play on a web browser or the Games App on your Android or iOS phone. You will basically be able to play The Crossword, The Mini Crossword, Wordle, Spelling Bee, Connections, Strands, Letter Boxed, and Tiles.

As a subscriber, you can visit the archive also where you can find more than 10000 crosswords. You can fish out daily puzzles dating back to 1993 and minis that were released in 2014.

Without a subscription, you will be allowed to solve the following daily puzzles free of cost:

• The Mini Crossword
• Sudoku
• Wordle
• Connections
• Strands
• Tiles
• Spelling Bee

NYT Mini Leaderboards

Leaderboard is one of the features of an NYT Mini Crossword that you can use irrespective of whether you solve the puzzle on the official site or the Games App. You can add your friends to your Leaderboard and vice versa and find out how much time everyone takes to finish a puzzle each day.

The moment a new puzzle is released, a leaderboard resets itself automatically. One can only see the leaderboard of an ongoing puzzle. The personal nature of a leaderboard ensures that only those who you have invited and added are present and no one else. Besides yourself, there can be nearly 100 other people on your leaderboard. If your leaderboard is full, you will have to remove someone in order to add a new person.

Presently, there is no global leaderboard that can show everyone who is solving the NYT Mini Crossword puzzle around the world.

How to Play

NYTimes Sudoku is like any classic Sudoku game. A more polished interface and interactive clues are two of its USPs.

To play NYT Sudoku, you need to know the rules. Once you have done that, you’ll have the confidence to attempt any game. You have to keep the following things in mind:

• You will have to insert numbers 1 to 9 in the 9 3×3 boxes.
• You will also need to insert numbers from 1 to 9 in all the rows and columns. A number must not get repeated.
• If an entry is incorrect, a red dot will appear at the bottom right corner of that cell.