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Looking for\u00a0the most recent<\/strong>\u00a0Mini Crossword answer?\u00a0Click here for today’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 Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? A couple of the clues were tricky, so read on for the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.<\/p>\n If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit\u00a0CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.<\/p>\n Read more: <\/strong>Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword<\/p>\n Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Oct. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n <\/span> NYT\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n 1A clue: “The Naked Gun” or “Scary Movie” 6A clue: ___ cut (short hairstyle) 7A clue: Napoleon’s punishment after the Battle of Waterloo 8A clue: Surrendered 9A clue: They travel up and down snow-covered hills 1D clue: Glasses, informally 2D clue: Dot on a computer screen 3D clue: Nitrous ___ (laughing gas) 4D clue: De-squeaked, as a bike chain 5D clue: Scrollable features of social media Looking for\u00a0the most recent\u00a0Mini Crossword answer?\u00a0Click here for today’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. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? A couple of the clues were tricky, so read on for the answers. And if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28642,"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-28641","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\/28641","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=28641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mini across clues and answers<\/h2>\n
Answer: SPOOF<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: PIXIE<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: EXILE<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: CEDED<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: SLEDS<\/strong><\/p>\nMini down clues and answers<\/h2>\n
Answer: SPECS<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: PIXEL<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: OXIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: OILED<\/strong><\/p>\n
Answer: FEEDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"