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 the last weekend of 2024. These are the final Mini Crosswords well solve before 2025 arrives this coming Wednesday. Its hard to believe! The year has gone by fast. Its been rather a blur, actually. Heres to hoping next year is one to savor. For now, we have a crossword to solve!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.Answers to todays Mini Crossword below . . . .Spoilers ahead!MORE FOR YOUACROSS1 French body of water LAC4 Relating to the Vatican PAPAL6 Self-serve station with salsa and shells TACOBAR8 Way, way, way back AGESAGO9 Totally clobber DESTROY10 Sheet read before playing a new board game RULES11 Vet's patient PETDOWN1 Ties, as hiking boots LACESUP2 One of 12 depicted in da Vinci's "The Last Supper" APOSTLE3 Nightclub such as the Moulin Rouge CABARET4 Buzzing device for an on-call doctor PAGER5 Nigerian city that's Africa's most populous (21+ million) LAGOS6 Teensy-weensy bit TAD7 __ G. Biv ROYGBIVNot the trickiest Saturday Mini Crossword of all time, but a few of these threw me for a loop. I had no idea LAGOS was that big, but then again I admit to a great deal of ignorance when it comes to the urban centers of the African continent. Others were quite a bit easier, such as RULES and PET. I was more stumped by PAGER than by CABARET. One rarely thinks of those now-antiquated devices in an era of smartphones. Overall, this took me 2:45 today, though I had to pause a couple times to deal with other stuff.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!