August 17, 2026archive
NYT Mini Crossword — August 17, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's five-by-five opens with a key ingredient in brownies, then a lower-body exercise you'd do on leg day.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with a moldable, stretchy compound kids play with, the stand an artist rests a canvas on, and the other half of a famous outlaw duo.
Hint 3 of 5
Down starts with the mathematical symbol for "the same as," and a word for being brave or plucky.
Hint 4 of 5
Continue down with a word for a neighborhood closed off behind a security barrier, and a quote about something we're each born already having, according to designer Diane von Furstenberg.
Hint 5 of 5
Finish down with the short word for a contractor's detailed blueprint or requirement.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- Brownie ingredients — EGGS
- Gym rep on leg day — SQUAT
- "Silly" stuff — PUTTY
- Stand for a painter — EASEL
- Bonnie and ___, classic crime couple — CLYDE
- = — EQUAL
- Courageous — GUTSY
- Fenced in, as a private community — GATED
- What "each of us already has, all we need to do is find it," per Diane von Furstenberg — STYLE
- Contractor's detail, for short — SPEC
This puzzle by the numbers
- 5 across, 5 down
- SQUAT (5)
Counted from our own archive of NYT Mini Crossword answers — not published anywhere else.
