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The Wednesday, January 1 NYT Mini is the 2025 puzzle. Here are all five Across and five Down clues and answers; the list contains spoilers. One answer, Across 9, differs between the dated answer guide and a secondary report, so it is identified below.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 NYT Mini answers
Spoilers: The answers are shown alongside their clues.
Across
- 1 Across — “Month that was the first of the new year in early 3-Down calendars”: MARCH
- 6 Across — “Love so much”: ADORE
- 7 Across — “Maker of Ironman Triathlon watches”: TIMEX
- 8 Across — “Stop”: CEASE
- 9 Across — “Searches (for)”: HUNTS in the dated Forbes answer guide. DocumentaryTube’s January 1, 2025 search-result report lists SEEKS instead; the sources do not establish which entry is correct. Forbes’ dated guide and DocumentaryTube’s report.
Down
- 1 Down — “Soccer contest”: MATCH
- 2 Down — “Francophile’s farewell”: ADIEU
- 3 Down — “Like Janus, the god of beginnings”: ROMAN
- 4 Down — “Feature of a cockatoo’s head”: CREST
- 5 Down — “Not-so-nice magic spells”: HEXES
Why the date includes the year
The weekday resolves the ambiguity: January 1, 2025 fell on a Wednesday, while January 1, 2026 was a Thursday. The clue wording and full answer key above come from Erik Kain’s Forbes guide, published December 31, 2024. The Across 9 discrepancy is not resolved by the available reports; check the original puzzle if you need to verify that fill.
Access information is date-specific
The 2024 guide said the Mini was playable on the web or in the app and that archive access required the app. A later Forbes guide, published January 1, 2026, says the Mini had become subscriber-only and that archive access required an NYT Games subscription. Those statements describe different dates, not a guarantee of current access terms. See the January 1, 2026 guide for its dated access commentary.
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