The Friday, August 8, 2025, NYT Mini answers are BUN, CHEESE, BURGER, SHROUD and TPS across, and BEGOT, USE UP, NERDS, CBS, HUH and ERR down. One published answer list gives 7-Across as “BURGERS”; two give “BURGER.”
Across answers
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1A. Hairstyle with hair drawn into a tight coil at the crown | BUN |
| 4A. Smile for the camera! / Yellow square atop 7-Across | CHEESE |
| 7A. Offering at a summer cookout | BURGER |
| 8A. To surround and conceal / Envelop and obscure | SHROUD |
| 9A. Reports that bring pain in Office Space / Covers a tree in bathroom rolls, in a classic prank | TPS |
Down answers
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1D. Gave rise to or produced / Brought about | BEGOT |
| 2D. To completely exhaust / Fully deplete | USE UP (grid fill: USEUP) |
| 3D. Colorful, pebble-shaped candy by Willy Wonka’s brand / Jocks’ counterparts, stereotypically | NERDS |
| 4D. “Survivor” network | CBS |
| 5D. Palindromic utterance of puzzlement / “What’d you say?” | HUH |
| 6D. To err / Make a mistake | ERR |
Why 7-Across appears as BURGER or BURGERS
Forbes and Analytics Insight list the cookout offering as BURGER, while Parade prints BURGERS. The singular is the stronger-supported answer in those reports, and it fits the reported stack theme with BUN and CHEESE. The New York Times archive grid was not directly checked, so the discrepancy is worth noting rather than presenting the conflicting listing as settled.
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