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1Repair Windows errors before they cause bigger problems2Scan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minute3Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errorsNeed a nudge on the Thursday, August 7, 2025, NYT Mini Crossword? Try the extra hints below before scrolling to the published clues and answers. The full solutions are under a spoiler warning.
Extra hints for the August 7 Mini
These are additional prompts, not the puzzle’s original clues. Stop here if you want a small hint without seeing the answers.
Across
- Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely ____
- Pictograms used in iMessage
- What holds an artist’s canvas
- A defensive hockey move into the boards
- Rash, as many bad decisions are
Down
- A tree whose name sounds like a sandy stretch
- A version of Texas Hold’em sharing a name with a city
- Smell detectors
- A VCR button that spits out a VHS
- Like fancy sheets
Published clues and answers — spoilers
The answers below are for the historical Thursday, August 7, 2025 puzzle, not necessarily the Mini published today.
Across
- 1 Across: Parts of a museum dinosaur exhibit — BONES
- 6 Across: Smiling Face with Sunglasses, for one — EMOJI
- 7 Across: Painter’s stand — EASEL
- 8 Across: Restaurant item often asked for by signing the air — CHECK
- 9 Across: Overly slapdash — HASTY
Down
- 1 Down: Tree with smooth gray bark — BEECH
- 2 Down: Nebraska city that’s home to Union Pacific headquarters — OMAHA
- 3 Down: Features of bloodhounds that are said to be 1,000 times stronger than humans — NOSES
- 4 Down: Boot from a game — EJECT
- 5 Down: ___ smooth — SILKY
How the Mini works
The New York Times Help Center describes the objective as filling white squares with letters to form words or phrases that cross, using clues in the Across and Down columns. The official help result also says Games and All Access subscribers can solve past Mini puzzles in the archive. NYT Mini Crossword – Help.
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