{"id":26632,"date":"2025-10-08T04:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26632"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:50:57","slug":"todays-nyt-mini-crossword-answers-for-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26632","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Oct. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Looking for\u00a0<strong>the most recent<\/strong>\u00a0Mini Crossword answer?\u00a0Click here for today&#8217;s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">Do you play the New York Times&#8217; Spelling Bee? If so, you&#8217;ll be sure to get 5-Across. Need some more help with today&#8217;s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for today&#8217;s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit\u00a0CNET&#8217;s NYT puzzle hints page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong>Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.<\/p>\n<p>     <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_caption g-inner-spacing-right-small g-text-xxsmall\"><\/p>\n<p>The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Oct. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-inner-spacing-right-small g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall g-color-text-meta g-text-xxxsmall\">NYT\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Mini across clues and answers<\/h2>\n<p>1A clue: __ of personality<br \/><strong>Answer: CULT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5A clue: Spelling Bee rank achieved by getting 70% of total points<br \/><strong>Answer: GENIUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7A clue: THC-infused gummy, e.g.<br \/><strong>Answer: EDIBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8A clue: Grid with numbers<br \/><strong>Answer: MATRIX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9A clue: Harvest<br \/><strong>Answer: REAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Mini down clues and answers<\/h2>\n<p>1D clue: Moth-repellent wood<strong><br \/>Answer: CEDAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2D clue: Join together<strong><br \/>Answer: UNITE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3D clue: Zodiac sign before Scorpio<strong><br \/>Answer: LIBRA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4D clue: Flower that caused the world&#8217;s first economic bubble in the 1630s<strong><br \/>Answer: TULIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5D clue: Rock on a band<strong><br \/>Answer: GEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6D clue: It sells, in an old maxim<strong><br \/>Answer: SEX<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for\u00a0the most recent\u00a0Mini Crossword answer?\u00a0Click here for today&#8217;s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Do you play the New York Times&#8217; Spelling Bee? If so, you&#8217;ll be sure to get 5-Across. Need some more help with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[994,1107,1106,832,15157,831],"class_list":{"0":"post-26632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-answers","9":"tag-crossword","10":"tag-mini","11":"tag-nyt","12":"tag-oct","13":"tag-todays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}