Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Friday, January 24th

In case you missed Thursday’s NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:

ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Thursday, January 23rdBy Erik Kain

It’s Friday and that means it’s also my last day writing the NYT Mini Crossword guide for a couple weeks! I’ll see you in the middle of February, oh thou puzzlers of mine! I think I’ll have the Valentine’s Day mini if I’m not mistaken (but I could be, my math is not as strong as my English). Onward we go!

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, it’s free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you’ll need the app to tackle the archive.

Answers to today’s Mini Crossword below . . . .

Spoilers ahead!

ACROSS

1- Bowser in the Mario games, eg — BOSS

5- It’s made to measure — RULER

7- Video game company named after a term in the board game Go — ATARI

8- Exercise similar to a crunch — SITUP

9- Unwelcome message on a graded paper — SEEME

DOWN

1- Word before knuckles or tacks — BRASS

2- Pop-up button? — OUTIE

3- Classic blackboard material — SLATE

4- Concentrated form of many cosmetics — SERUM

6- Ready to eat, as fruit — RIPE

Today’s Mini was actually a bit of a challenge, but I had some good guesses off the bat with BOSS and RULER. I had no idea that ATARI got its name from the board game GO, so I learned something new today. RIPE was fairly easy and I with a couple letters already filled in for 3-DOWN, SLATE was a fairly obvious answer. From here, the last little bits filled in fairly quickly. This one took me 1:05.

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