Here are the answers to the NYT Mini Crossword for Sunday, March 9, 2025. Spoilers follow, so scroll only as far as you need.
March 9, 2025 Mini answer key
The grid has five Across entries and five Down entries. Two independent reports of that date’s puzzle list the same clue-and-answer set, so the answers below are consistent across them.
Across
| No. | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All over the ___ | MAP |
| 4 | Exasperated words before trailing off into a facepalm | IJUST |
| 7 | Kendrick who won five Grammys for 2024’s “Not Like Us” | LAMAR |
| 8 | Rapper in a beef with 7-Across | DRAKE |
| 9 | “The birds and the bees” | SEX |
Down
| No. | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not spicy, as salsa | MILD |
| 2 | Slightly open, as a door | AJAR |
| 3 | Mountain lions | PUMAS |
| 5 | Alcohol whose varieties include junmai (“pure rice”) and nigori (“cloudy”) | SAKE |
| 6 | Dino with short arms | TREX |
How the answers were checked
The answer set comes from a Yahoo Entertainment and Parade report dated March 9, 2025, which gives the full clue list and answers. A Forbes report also reproduces the Sunday set. That Forbes page carries a Monday, March 10 headline, but its text links back to its Sunday, March 9 coverage, so the Sunday entries are the ones that apply here.
The official NYT Mini page could not be inspected for this article, so the grid itself has not been checked directly against the publisher. Treat the key as matching the secondary reporting rather than as confirmed from the NYT puzzle page.
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Notes on the date and access
- Year: The puzzle title does not include a year. March 9 falls on a Sunday in 2025, and the reporting matches that year.
- Where to play: Reporting describes The Mini as playable on the NYT website and in the NYT Games app. It also says older puzzles in the archive require an NYT Games subscription. Check the current terms on the NYT site before relying on that access detail.
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