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Here are the answers to the New York Times Mini Crossword for Wednesday, January 15, 2025. The clue-and-answer list below is transcribed from Paul Tassi’s Forbes guide, published the night before; it is a secondary answer key, not the original NYT puzzle record.
Across clues and answers
- Food that many an N.Y.C. tourist grabs for breakfast — BAGEL
- Got out of bed — AROSE
- Adjective paired with 3-Down in a simile — LOOSE
- Effortlessness — EASE
- Tyrannosaurus ___ — REX
Down clues and answers
- Makeshift seat in a barnyard, maybe — BALE
- Very loud, like a stadium crowd — A ROAR
- Bird whose name rhymes with 7-Across — GOOSE
- Fictional Vermont college on Netflix’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls” — ESSEX
- Author Harper — LEE
How the crossing clues fit
The paired simile entries are 7-Across LOOSE and 3-Down GOOSE. The pop-culture reference at 4-Down points to ESSEX, the fictional college in the Netflix series. Forbes contributor Paul Tassi commented on the contrast between the familiar REX clue and the more specific ESSEX reference; that was his personal reaction, not an official statement from the New York Times or the puzzle constructor.
Playing the Mini and finding archived puzzles
The Forbes guide describes the Mini as typically having three to five clues in each direction on a five-by-five grid, with larger puzzles possible, especially on Saturdays. Its 2025 access description says the current Mini is free on the NYT website or NYT Games app, while the puzzle archive requires an NYT Games subscription. Access terms may have changed since that article was published.
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