Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.
Are you watching Sunday’s Academy Awards? Today’s NYT Mini Crossword begins with a clue to a movie that could win big at that ceremony. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.
The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times’ games collection. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.
Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword
Let’s get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers.
The completed NYT Mini Crossword for March 2, 2025.
Mini across clues and answers
1A clue: Role for Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown”
Answer: DYLAN
6A clue: Makeup for the cheeks
Answer: ROUGE
7A clue: “Well, shucks!”
Answer: AWGEE
8A clue: Serious devotee
Answer: FIEND
9A clue: Appropriate rhyme for “stressed,” for students
Answer: TEST
Mini down clues and answers
1D clue: Unfortunate status for an email you meant to send last week
Answer: DRAFT
2D clue: “Gadzooks, that hurt!”
Answer: YOWIE
3D clue: Winter Olympics sleds
Answer: LUGES
4D clue: Writer’s representative
Answer: AGENT
5D clue: Have to have
Answer: NEED
How to play more Mini Crosswords
The New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day’s Mini Crossword for free, but you’ll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.
Read the full article here
