September 10, 2026archive
NYT Mini Crossword — September 10, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's five-by-five opens with the genetic material humans share almost entirely with chimpanzees, then a pair of pants made from the fabric found in the down clue.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with a word meaning to bring people or things together, and the divot you leave behind swinging a golf club.
Hint 3 of 5
The last across answer describes signs that warn of something bad to come.
Hint 4 of 5
Down starts with the sturdy blue fabric used to make jeans, and a word for someone easily fooled.
Hint 5 of 5
Finish down with the first name of the chilling character Javier Bardem played in a Coen brothers thriller, an Olympic combat sport, and the scenery built for a stage production.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- Humans share about 99% of it with chimps — DNA
- Blue attire made of 1-Down — JEANS
- Bring together — UNITE
- Chunk taken out of a golf fairway — DIVOT
- Foreboding signs — OMENS
- Blue material in 4-Across — DENIM
- Gullible — NAIVE
- ___ Chigurh, Javier Bardem's Oscar-winning role in "No Country for Old Men" — ANTON
- Olympic martial art — JUDO
- Theater backdrops — SETS
This puzzle by the numbers
- 5 across, 5 down
- JEANS (5)
Counted from our own archive of NYT Mini Crossword answers — not published anywhere else.
