August 23, 2026archive
NYT Mini Crossword — August 23, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's five-by-five opens with the surname shared by the historic line dividing North and South, then a word for having more than you need.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with what a certain reggae singer denies feeling in a famous chorus, a winter sport you'd do down a mountain, and the body part you're told to keep on the prize.
Hint 3 of 5
Down starts with a short word for a glossy magazine, and a word for making someone laugh.
Hint 4 of 5
Continue down with a texture like a durian's prickly rind, and the classic skateboarding trick where the board pops off the ground.
Hint 5 of 5
Finish down with the barrier stretched across the middle of a ping-pong table.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- ___-Dixon line — MASON
- More than enough — AMPLE
- Obvious verdict in Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" — GUILT
- Hit the slopes — SKI
- Something to "keep on the prize" — EYE
- People or Rolling Stone, for short — MAG
- Make laugh — AMUSE
- Like the skin of a durian fruit — SPIKY
- Skate park jump — OLLIE
- Part of a ping-pong table — NET
This puzzle by the numbers
- 5 across, 5 down
- MASON (5)
Counted from our own archive of NYT Mini Crossword answers — not published anywhere else.
