New Yorker Mini Crossword August 20 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the New Yorker Mini Crossword published on August 20 2026.
- 26
- Total Clues
- 12
- Total Across
- 14
- Total Down
Clues Across (12 total)
(1)
Trash
The answer is: garbage
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Response to “Why do you ask?”
The answer is: noreason
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Far from thorough, slangily
The answer is: halfassed
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(10)
Family-planning option: Abbr.
The answer is: ivf
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School volunteer grps.
The answer is: ptas
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(12)
Mineral used to add shimmer to makeup
The answer is: mica
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Gas-station brand that sounds like two letters
The answer is: esso
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(16)
___ up on (attack as a group)
The answer is: gang
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Pigpen
The answer is: sty
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Fragrant white flowers
The answer is: gardenias
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Saying aloud
The answer is: uttering
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Ships
The answer is: vessels
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Clues Down (14 total)
(1)
Aids for getting around links?
The answer is: golfcarts
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(2)
Sound of a bark
The answer is: arf
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(3)
___ what you sow
The answer is: reap
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(4)
Moisten with pan drippings
The answer is: baste
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(5)
Stephen Sondheim musical whose characters include John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald
The answer is: assassins
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(6)
Doesn’t bring a date
The answer is: goesstag
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R.E.M.’s “It’s the ___ of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
The answer is: end
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(8)
Help out from the passenger seat, say
The answer is: navigate
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That guy
The answer is: him
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Mountain range that separates Chile from Argentina
The answer is: andes
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Kvetchers’ cries
The answer is: oys
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“Pretty Woman” actor Richard
The answer is: gere
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Informal term of address in the U.K.
The answer is: guv
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(20)
Zero, in soccer
The answer is: nil
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