August 30, 2026archive
NYT Mini Crossword — August 30, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's five-by-five opens with the stringed instrument featured in a famous beer logo, then a word for a wall or building covered in climbing plants.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with two rival soda brands you'd find sitting side by side in the grocery aisle, and the abbreviation for the publisher that also owns a sports news outlet.
Hint 3 of 5
Down starts with a word for being fashionably aware and trendy, and the French word meaning "with."
Hint 4 of 5
Continue down with a phrase for mercilessly teasing someone, and a word for something bothersome, like a swarm of bugs on a summer night.
Hint 5 of 5
Finish down with the kind of eating plan people often commit to after a New Year's resolution.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- Classical instrument in the Guinness logo — HARP
- Covered in vines — IVIED
- 8-Across competitor, in the soda aisle — PEPSI
- 7-Across competitor, in the soda aisle — COKE
- Owner of The Athletic, for short — NYT
- Cool and in the know — HIP
- French for "with" — AVEC
- Ruthlessly make fun of — RIPON
- Annoying, like mosquitoes — PESKY
- Plan born from many a New Year's resolution — DIET
This puzzle by the numbers
- 5 across, 5 down
- IVIED (5)
Counted from our own archive of NYT Mini Crossword answers — not published anywhere else.
