Todays NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Thursday, January 2nd
Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... [+] puzzle.Credit: NYTIn case you missed Wednesdays NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:And already the year is racing forth. Before you know it well be staring down the barrel of 2026though I realize Im getting ahead of myself. Its just that 2024 went by so quickly its a little unsettling! Time is greedy and insatiable and capricious. Ah well, we still have 364 Mini Crosswords to solve before next year. Lets solve todays!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 Windy blast GUST5 Newton who introduced the three-body problem ISAAC7 Cuban dance style RUMBA8 Time to call the midwife LABOR9 Country bordering Vietnam LAOSDOWN1 "The ___ With the Dragon Tattoo" GIRL2 Standard restaurant order, with "the" USUAL3 Afro-Brazilian dance style SAMBA4 Forbidden TABOO6 Ford focus? CARSToday's Mini CrosswordScreenshot: Erik KainThis ended up being pretty easy simply because the ones I didnt know filled in pretty fast based on the ones I did. GUST, GIRL, ISAAC, USUAL all came fairly easily right off the bat, as did TABOO and LABOR, and at that point the ones I wasnt 100% certain about, like RUMBA / SAMBA were basically already done. This took me 51 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!