NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today With Clues, March 19, 2025
Published on: March 18, 2025 at 1:57 am
Go through our NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today for March 19, 2025, 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 must follow the clues for the down and across columns, which should not be too much of an ask if you try sincerely. The New York Times readily releases a new puzzle every day.
An NYT Mini is a 5 by 5, meaning the words 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, which NYT releases regularly, but they are not a cakewalk. NYT Mini Crosswords tend to get tougher toward the end of a week; hence, knowing the tricks to solve these puzzles is important.
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 multiple options to help you out when you cannot 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, a column across or down, or the whole puzzle. When the auto-check option is on, 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]
Here is the answer to the NYT Mini Crossword for today, March 19:
Guess your answers in the ‘ACROSS’ lane. This starts from the puzzle’s left side and goes horizontally towards the right side. Get the latest solution guide to tally with what you guessed in the game. Have a look at the solution guide with the clues stuck on.
- 1) Practical joke
Answer: GAG
- 4) Halloween costume that often includes suspenders and a fake mustache
Answer: MARIO
- 6) Best Picture winner at the 2025 Oscars
Answer: ANORA
- 7) Ingredient in beer and bread
Answer: YEAST
- 8) Have in one’s possession
Answer: O WN
DOWN
- 1) Reaction to an awful pun
Answer: GROAN
- 2) Puts on TV
Answer: AIRS
- 3) Total legend, informally
Answer: GOAT
- 4) B.L.T. condiment
Answer: MAYO
- 5) All over again
Answer: ANEW
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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 Tuesday and 6 p.m. EST on Saturday.
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 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 to find more than 10,000 crosswords. You can fish out daily puzzles dating back to 1993 and minis 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 whom 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 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.