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NYT Mini Crossword answers for Friday, August 7, 2026

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A Friday 5x5 by Joel Fagliano: MAC opens the Across clues and MORON runs down the first column. Tap a clue to show just that answer.

Across

  • 1. Apple computer
    MAC
  • 4. What the Kansas scenes lack that the Oz scenes do not, in "The Wizard of Oz"
    COLOR
  • 6. Quarrel (with)
    ARGUE
  • 7. Get on an airplane
    BOARD
  • 8. "Nothing but ___!"
    NET

Down

  • 1. Nincompoop
    MORON
  • 2. Bottom of the aquatic food chain
    ALGAE
  • 3. Pickleball venue
    COURT
  • 4. Yellow symbol of N.Y.C.
    CAB
  • 5. Like the logos of Stanford and Harvard
    RED

Full grid

Every answer, in grid order.

Across: MAC · COLOR · ARGUE · BOARD · NET
Down: MORON · ALGAE · COURT · CAB · RED
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