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Hints for the October 28, 2025 Mini
These supplementary hints can help without immediately revealing every answer. Parade provides the clue wording and letter-based hints; Forbes offers alternate hints, which are identified below rather than presented as the puzzle’s original clues.
Across
- N.B.A. team with purple-and-orange jerseys: Think of a plural word for the lights in the sky. Parade’s letter hint is that the answer starts with S.
- “___ Demon Hunters” (hit 2025 movie): The blank names a music genre associated with BTS and Blackpink, according to Forbes.
- Scrumptious: Forbes suggests a synonym meaning yummy.
- “Next ___ on the agenda …”: Forbes’s alternate hint is a pair of romantically connected people, in gossip-magazine language.
- Politician Buttigieg: The first name is shared with Sampras and Davidson, Forbes notes.
Down
- Rink rental: Parade’s hint says it begins with S and ends with E.
- Ticked off: Parade says the answer begins with U.
- Blame-shifting words: Forbes’s alternate hint is “It was them.”
- Fittingly, the outside letters of “snoopy”: Forbes points to characters such as Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, or Harriet.
- What might be requested after spinning around an iPad: Forbes’s alternate hint is the end of a billiard cue.
Full answers
The Across and Down entries below match the clue-answer list published by Parade and are independently corroborated by Forbes.
Across
- N.B.A. team with purple-and-orange jerseys: SUNS
- “___ Demon Hunters” (hit 2025 movie): K-POP
- Scrumptious: TASTY
- “Next ___ on the agenda …”: ITEM
- Politician Buttigieg: PETE
Down
- Rink rental: SKATE
- Ticked off: UPSET
- Blame-shifting words: NOT ME
- Fittingly, the outside letters of “snoopy”: SPY
- What might be requested after spinning around an iPad: TIP
About this puzzle date
Parade and Forbes both identify the puzzle as Tuesday, October 28, 2025; their answer pages were published the evening before in EDT. Parade reports that the Mini resets at 10 p.m. Forbes describes it as a quick version of the larger crossword, usually with a 5-by-5 grid and occasional larger Saturday puzzles. Forbes also reported that the Mini and its prior-puzzle archive required an NYT Games subscription at the time of publication; that is not a verification of current access terms. A date-organized third-party archive is available at Mini Answers.
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Sources: Parade’s October 28 answers and hints and Forbes’s extra hints and answer list.
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