NYT Mini Crossword — August 29, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's bigger grid opens with an exclamation you might shout twice in surprise, then a category covering word puzzles like Wordle and Scrabble.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with a text you'd send to say you're headed somewhere, a slangy word for totally awesome, and the informal short name for genetically modified food.
Hint 3 of 5
Finish across with the massive football venue at a Big Ten university, the sound of someone sawing logs in their sleep, and a reassurance that something difficult will pass.
Hint 4 of 5
Down opens with the surname of New York City's first Muslim mayor, the first name of a sitting Supreme Court justice, and a Fox sitcom set in a Los Angeles loft.
Hint 5 of 5
Finish down with tiny warm-weather bugs, the first name of a Founding Father whose name graces a beer brand, the short word for operating rooms, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and a single raised bump in a tactile reading system.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- "___, oh, ___!" — MAN
- Wordle and Scrabble, for two — GAMES
- "Heading over now!" — ONMYWAY
- Totally awesome — RAD
- So-called "frankenfood," for short — GMO
- The University of Michigan has the largest one in the U.S., seating over 107,000 people — STADIUM
- Go "Zzzz" — SNORE
- "Don't worry, ___ pass" — ITLL
- First Muslim mayor of N.Y.C. — MAMDANI
- Coney Barrett of the Supreme Court — AMY
- Fox sitcom set in a Los Angeles loft — NEWGIRL
- Tiny summer pests — GNATS
- ___ Adams, Founding Father for whom a beer is named — SAMUEL
- Surgery sites, for short — ORS
- ___ Kippur — YOM
- Bit of Braille — DOT
This puzzle by the numbers
- 8 across, 8 down
- ONMYWAY (7)
Counted from our own archive of NYT Mini Crossword answers — not published anywhere else.
