Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for! A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well ...

January 12, 2025 • NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz and Chris House of Annandale, Virginia.

Challenge yourself every day with a free mini version of the classic crossword puzzle. Can you solve The Mini in minutes — or seconds? Play a new puzzle every day or browse the archive.

Each theme answer features a different anagram of HORSE: OSHER, ERSHO, and EORSH. Congratulations to Ed Sessa making a USA Today crossword debut! Thank you, Ed, for this entertaining puzzle.

This clue made me smile. My cat, Willow, is always delighted to see her big cat cousins in the puzzle. She looks delighted in this photo, doesn't she? Today was one of those days where I did not ...

Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you’ll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the ...

On-air challenge: Every answer today is a familiar three-word phrase in the form "___ and ___," in which the first and last words start with the letter S.