Need help with the Sunday, August 3, 2025 New York Times Mini Crossword? Start with the extra clues below, then scroll to the spoiler-marked answer list when you’re ready. This is an archived puzzle, not today’s current Mini.
Extra hints for the August 3 Mini
Try these clues before checking the filled grid. The hints are arranged by direction, with answers withheld until the next section.
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Across
- 1-Across: The red drink in Chappell Roan’s “_____ Supernova.”
- 2-Across: A printer may need a replacement cartridge of this.
- 3-Across: What you do when using DoorDash or Grubhub.
- 4-Across: Second-hand; the kind of items you might find at a thrift shop.
- 5-Across: Buzz and Woody’s dinosaur friend.
Down
- 1-Down: For better or _____; not as good.
- 2-Down: The finger beside your thumb, or a reference section at the back of a book.
- 3-Down: Something essential; something you have to have.
- 4-Down: To go wrong, as in “to _____ is human.”
- 5-Down: A “world” thing; pair this with 1-Across to make a road-trip phrase.
Spoilers: August 3, 2025 answers
Stop here if you still want to solve the grid yourself. The answers for the archived Sunday puzzle are:
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- 1-Across: WINE
- 2-Across: TONER
- 3-Across: ORDER
- 4-Across: USED
- 5-Across: REX
Down answers
- 1-Down: WORSE
- 2-Down: INDEX
- 3-Down: NEED
- 4-Down: ERR
- 5-Down: TOUR
WINE at 1-Across and TOUR at 5-Down join to form WINE TOUR.
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Where to play the archived puzzle
Forbes reported in its August 2, 2025 guide that readers could play the Mini on the NYT website or in the NYT Games app, and that access to the archive then required a Games subscription. That is a report of the policy at the time, not confirmation of the current archive-access rules. See the Forbes guide and Parade’s August 3 puzzle answers for the date and answer-set corroboration.
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