NYT Mini Crossword · Answers

NYT Mini Crossword answers for Saturday, October 31, 2026

7x7 grid · Show any single answer, or the full grid at the bottom

A bigger Saturday Mini for Halloween, titled "Hybrid Candies": it opens on the bag a trick-or-treater carries, and three of the Across answers are candy mash-ups - half one treat, half another. Tap a clue to show just that answer, one by one.

Across

1. Candy holder for a trick-or-treater
BAG
4. Org. interested in Mars and the Milky Way
NASA
5. Half Starburst, half Skittle?
STARTLE
8. Golfer's goal
PAR
9. Iconic Australian animal, for short
ROO
10. Half Airhead, half candy corn?
AIRHORN
12. Half Mounds, half Reese's?
MOUSES
13. Female sheep
EWE

Down

1. Candy ___
BAR
2. Houston baseball team
ASTROS
3. Aplenty
GALORE
4. Opposite of wide
NARROW
5. Health resort
SPA
6. "Je ___" (French "I love you")
TAIME
7. Many, many millennia
EONS
11. Shade of a color
HUE

Full grid

Every answer, in grid order.

Across: BAG · NASA · STARTLE · PAR · ROO · AIRHORN · MOUSES · EWE
Down: BAR · ASTROS · GALORE · NARROW · SPA · TAIME · EONS · HUE

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