NYT Mini Crossword · Answers

NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, November 9, 2026

5x5 grid · Show any single answer, or the full grid at the bottom

A Monday Mini on a shaped 5x5 frame with its four corners cut away: it opens with a parking LOT that might hold very little, sets a Thanksgiving GOURD across the second row, and hides a TROLL down the fourth column, lying in wait the way trolls do online. The Downs carry the flavor today, with a LOCAL who knows the way down the second column and a bone-DRY finish in the last one. Tap any clue to show just that one answer, then work through the rest of the grid at whatever pace suits you this morning, coffee in hand and the whole week still ahead of you.

Across

1. Paradoxically, it might only have a little parking
LOT
4. Colorful fruit on a Thanksgiving table
GOURD
6. The Rock or Chris Rock
ACTOR
7. "It pains me to say ..."
SADLY
8. Text that's rarely true
LOL

Down

1. Good person to ask for directions
LOCAL
2. Perform better than
OUTDO
3. Deliberately try to make angry online
TROLL
4. Road trip expense
GAS
5. In need of a humidifier
DRY

Full grid

Every answer, in grid order.

Across: LOT · GOURD · ACTOR · SADLY · LOL
Down: LOCAL · OUTDO · TROLL · GAS · DRY

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