Need help with the New York Times Mini Crossword for Sunday, March 2, 2025? The answers are below. Spoilers ahead.
Spoilers below: This is the complete answer list for the New York Times Mini Crossword from Sunday, March 2, 2025. The puzzle has five Across entries and five Down entries.
NYT Mini Crossword answers for March 2, 2025
Across
| No. | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Role for Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown” | DYLAN |
| 6 | Makeup for the cheeks | ROUGE |
| 7 | “Well, shucks!” | AWGEE |
| 8 | Serious devotee | FIEND |
| 9 | Appropriate rhyme for “stressed,” for students | TEST |
Down
| No. | Clue | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unfortunate status for an email you meant to send last week | DRAFT |
| 2 | “Gadzooks, that hurt!” | YOWIE |
| 3 | Winter Olympics sleds | LUGES |
| 4 | Writer’s representative | AGENT |
| 5 | Have to have | NEED |
Clue notes
- DYLAN: Timothée Chalamet played Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
- ROUGE: Rouge is makeup applied to the cheeks.
- AWGEE: An expression of mild disappointment or surprise, as in “Well, shucks!”
- FIEND: A devoted enthusiast can be described as a fiend, such as a crossword fiend.
- TEST: For students, “test” rhymes with “stressed” when the latter is pronounced in reverse order of its letters’ sound pattern.
- DRAFT: An email intended for last week that was never sent remains a draft.
- YOWIE: A playful exclamation used to express sudden pain.
- LUGES: Luge is the winter sport; luges refers to the sleds used in it.
- AGENT: A writer’s representative is typically a literary agent.
- NEED: To “have to have” something is to need it.
This is an archival answer guide for the puzzle published on Sunday, March 2, 2025, not a guide to a current day’s Mini Crossword. The ten-entry transcription is corroborated by multiple independent answer guides.
The Bottom Line
The complete March 2, 2025 NYT Mini answers are DYLAN, ROUGE, AWGEE, FIEND, TEST, DRAFT, YOWIE, LUGES, AGENT, and NEED.
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