Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 18, 2025

The New York Times Mini Crossword for Monday, August 18, 2025 is the puzzle this page covers. The full Across and Down answer list for that date is not reproduced here, because the clue-and-answer text could not be verified against an official source. Use the date to find the correct puzzle, then check the answers in NYT Games.

Which puzzle this is

The Mini is the short daily crossword in NYT Games, the Times’s puzzle section. Its grid is small enough to finish in a few minutes, which is why solvers often look up a specific day’s answers when they get stuck on one or two clues.

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The year in the title matters. Monday, August 18 fell in 2025. In 2026 the same calendar date is a Tuesday, so a search for “Monday, Aug. 18” that returns a 2026 page is pointing at a different puzzle. Coverage of the 2025 Mini from Mashable and The Economic Times, both dated August 18, 2025, identifies the puzzle by that date, which is the reference point used here.

How to check the answers for that date

1. Open NYT Games in a browser and select the Mini Crossword.
2. Look for the puzzle dated Monday, August 18, 2025. If the game’s archive does not show past dates for your account, the puzzle may not be available to you, and you should rely on a dated answer page instead.
3. Compare the dates on any answer article against the weekday. A Monday puzzle should be dated Monday; if the weekday and date disagree, the page is for a different year.

What is and is not established

• Established: the puzzle is the NYT Mini for Monday, August 18, 2025, and dated answer coverage for that day exists.
• Not established here: the individual Across and Down entries, and any hints attached to them. Those details were not available in the sources reviewed for this page, so no answers are listed.

If you want more puzzles

Solving practice is the only reason to look beyond a single day’s answers. A printed mini crossword book gives you a stack of similar grids to work through offline. It does not contain the August 18, 2025 puzzle, so it is useful only for general practice.

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