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Need help with the Sunday, May 4, 2025 NYT Mini? Start with the clue list below, then open the spoiler section for the complete answer key. The standout bit of wordplay is 9-Across: its answer is also 8-Across spelled backward.
Clues for the May 4, 2025 Mini
Use these prompts to check the puzzle without seeing the answers. Across entries are listed first, followed by Down.
Across
- Wines that Napa Valley is renowned for, informally
- Right away!
- School students
- Make a mistake … or 8-Across backward
- Many a new driver
Down
- Items of clothing that may be worn backward
- ___ Gawande, surgeon with the #1 New York Times best seller “Being Mortal”
- Hasbro toy with a pull handle and twistable crank
- Criticize snarkily, with “at”
- You’re reading it
- Channel with “2” and “U” spinoffs
Spoilers: full answer key
Stop here if you want to solve the grid before checking your answers.
Across answers
- CABS — Wines that Napa Valley is renowned for, informally
- AT ONCE — Right away!
- PUPILS — School students
- SLIP-UP — Make a mistake … or 8-Across backward
- TEEN — Many a new driver
Down answers
- CAPS — Items of clothing that may be worn backward
- ATUL — ___ Gawande, surgeon with the #1 New York Times best seller “Being Mortal”
- BOP IT — Hasbro toy with a pull handle and twistable crank
- SNIPE — Criticize snarkily, with “at”
- CLUE — You’re reading it
- ESPN — Channel with “2” and “U” spinoffs
How to reveal help without spoiling the whole grid
The NYT Mini is a compact crossword filled by entering answers into white squares from Across and Down clues. NYT help materials describe options to check or reveal a square, an answer, or the whole puzzle. If you are using those controls, reveal only the amount you need: a square for a nudge, an answer when stuck on one entry, or the complete grid when you want to see the solution.
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Try Hard Guides’ dated hint page lists the clue prompts and offers progressive letter reveals, but the individual hint letters are not visible in its accessible text. The clue list above therefore preserves a no-answer first step without inventing a letter-by-letter sequence.
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