Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... [+] puzzle.Credit: NYTIn case you missed Fridays NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:Its been awhile since Ive written one of these NYT Mini Crossword guides. Last time was back in Februarynow its March! Saturday is always the hardest crossword of the week, so lets get right to it!The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, its free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though youll need the app to tackle the archive.Spoilers ahead!ACROSS1- Chocolate/marshmallow sandwich SMORE6- Weighed down (with) LADEN7- Birthday cake inserts CANDLES9- First U.S. state alphabetically ALABAMA10- 0% NOTABIT11- Free-for-all fight MELEE12- Puts on the market SELLSDOWN1- Winding ski races SLALOMS2- Herbivore seen off Florida shores MANATEE3- Strange person ODDBALL4- Give another name RELABEL5- Bowser and King Boo, in the Mario games ENEMIES7- Container on the pantry shelf CAN9- Took a chair SATToday's MiniScreenshot: Erik KainSaturday is supposed to be the hardest crossword of the week, but this onewhile certainly containing more wordswas not terribly difficult. I suppose thats partly just luck of the draw. Sometimes you know the words and sometimes you dont. SMORE was easy, but then I also knew SLALOMS (despite being a lousy skier) and CANDLES and ALABAMA at which point MANATEE was pretty obvious. From here, its like dominoes falling. Enough words fill in that even the ones you might not get right away like NOTABIT or LADEN quickly come into focus. This took me 1:38 today.How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.If you also play Wordle, I write guides about that as well. You can find those and all my TV guides, reviews and much more here on my blog. Thanks for reading!