Here are the answers to the NYT Mini Crossword for Friday, August 7, 2026. The year is included because the date repeats annually.
August 7, 2026 Mini crossword answers
Spoilers below. Check a clue you are stuck on, or use the complete key to finish the grid.
Across
- 1 Across — Apple computer: MAC
- 4 Across — What the Kansas scenes lack that the Oz scenes do not, in “The Wizard of Oz”: COLOR
- 6 Across — Quarrel (with): ARGUE
- 7 Across — Get on an airplane: BOARD
- 8 Across — “Nothing but ___!”: NET
Down
- 1 Down — Nincompoop: MORON
- 2 Down — Bottom of the aquatic food chain: ALGAE
- 3 Down — Pickleball venue: COURT
- 4 Down — Yellow symbol of N.Y.C.: CAB
- 5 Down — Like the logos of Stanford and Harvard: RED
The answer list is from WordHint’s dated August 7, 2026 solution page, a secondary source; it is not an independently verified NYT answer archive: WordHint’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers – Aug 7.
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The Mini is a smaller crossword in which you fill white squares with words or phrases from Across and Down clues. The intersecting answers help check one another. According to the NYT Help Center, subscribers can play past Minis in the archive on the web and in the Games app. In the game, you can also check or reveal a square, an answer, or the whole puzzle.
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This key is for August 7, 2026. If you meant August 7 in another year, that date has a different puzzle.
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