Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... More puzzle.Credit: NYTIn case you missed Thursdays NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:And so at last we come to the end. The end of the week. Basically the end of the month. And the end of my stint as your humble NYT Mini Crossword guideat least for the next couple weeks. I shall pass the baton to my colleagues Kris Holt and Paul Tassi but never fear: I shall return. Have a fantabulous weekend, folks. Now lets solve this Mini!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- Like crackers after the box is left open STALE6- Targets of facial cleansers PORESPlay Puzzles & Games on Forbes7- Patronized, as a restaurant ATEAT8- House occupied by a Presbyterian minister MANSE9- Material thats an anagram of 1-Across and 4-Down SLATEDOWN1- Bombards with texts, say SPAMS2- The z in x+y=z TOTAL3- Stadiums covered counterpart ARENA4- Mosts opposite LEAST5- Lauder in the beauty aisle ESTEEToday's Mini CrosswordScreenshot: Erik KainDespite having a pretty sure sense of both 1-Across and 1-Down, this one was still quite tricky. I mostly blame 7-Across. ATEAT? I guess the comma in the clue makes us swap the words around or something. It should be EATAT as far as Im concerned. Weird. I also didnt know Lauder in the beauty aisle and had to rely on filling in other words to get there. But I learned that a Presbyterian minister lives in a MANSE. All I can think about is Manse Rayder from Game Of Thrones. I got this one in 2:01, by far the slowest Ive been all week. Maybe Im deteriorating . . . .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!