Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... [+] puzzle.Credit: NYTIn case you missed Saturdays NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:The last Lazy Sunday of the year is upon us, and I recommend you take full advantage of it. Hell, I recommend you take Monday off and just keep the weekend rolling straight through New Years Day. Schools out for winter. Stay home and play games, watch some of the great movies and TV shows that are out this weekend, and eat way too much food. You can get back to all your healthy, productive stuff on Thursday. But first, lets solve todays Mini Crossword!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 Getting closer, so to speak WARM5 First-string crew ATEAM7 ___ journalism, style associated with Hunter S. Thompson GONZO8 Prized "activity" for new parents SLEEP9 Opposite of more LESSDOWN1 Moves like an excited dog's tail WAGS2 Ring-shaped reef ATOLL3 Zellweger of "Bridget Jones's Diary" RENEE4 Puzzles in a children's coloring book MAZES6 Cleans the floor MOPSToday's NYT Mini CrosswordCredit: Erik KainThis was a pretty quick Mini even if a couple of the words were a bit trickier than others. I actually skipped 1 and 5 ACROSS and went straight to 7GONZOand then 9LESS. I kept thinking NAPS for 8-ACROSS but it ended up being SLEEP. Close enough! I had to think a bit before I came up with ATOLL for 2-DOWN but the rest were pretty obvious. Todays Mini took me 1 minute and 11 seconds.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!