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Note: This guide applies to the NYT Mini crossword puzzle. If you are looking for a full crossword puzzle, check our response guide to the NYT crossword!
NYT mini crossword Tips: Thursday, August 28 2025
Here is a full list of all tips in today’s NYT Mini crossword puzzles. To reveal our additional clue for one of them, just touch or click the spoiler text below. To reveal the answer to each clue separately, simply broaden the spoiler fields below!
1a For example, the boss of Spongebob.
Our tip: Despite its color, he is not a homor.
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He also has a tendency to money!
5a. Investigating the IRD agent.
Our tip: It starts with A.
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Sounds stressful!
7a Something you couldn’t do in American flights since 2000.
Our tip: Rather unhealthy.
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Difficult habit to dig.
8a Peninsula east of the yellow sea.
Our tip: It starts with K.
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House K-Pop!
9a One “R” in R&R.
Our tip: Sunday is for this day.
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The first r in rest and regeneration.
1d. Barrel -shaped wine container.
Our tip: Traditionally made of oak.
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The wood from which barrels are made affect the result of the wine.
2D. Something heard by vines.
Our tip: It usually started in tabloids or at school.
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It can be very harmful to reputation!
3D. Deep love.
Our tip: It starts with A.
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One of the more romantic words.
4d. Vehicles in the peloton.
Our tip: Driving, not powered.
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A great form of exercise.
6d. Of which he will drink a calf.
Our tip: It starts with T.
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Usually adapted to the exchanges.
NYT MIT MINI Crossword Answers: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Fold all this together, and here is a full finished mini crossword showing all the answers to today’s puzzle:
Today’s crossword was quite driven, with the unexpected appearance of Mr. Crabs, no less. This question would be the most challenging if you didn’t know the cartoon, but for us whose millennials we laughed until the next puzzle.
As for the mini-cross words, he was not so bad. But let’s see if I eat my words after completing today’s full crossword puzzle! You can also find a guide for this, here at Rock Paper Shotgun.
This is all for today’s puzzle, but if you like to maintain your brain energetic thanks to more NYT puzzles, you can also check our guides about the tip and answer Thursday, August 28, and our connections on Thursday, August 28.