NYT Mini Crossword — September 19, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's larger weekend grid opens with a popular home-sharing app, then the prehistoric era when mammoths and saber-toothed cats roamed.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with a slangy term for a soft, out-of-shape physique often associated with fatherhood, and the first name of a comedian known for SNL and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
Hint 3 of 5
Keep going with the word that pairs with "bitty" to describe something extremely small, and the Canadian capital city.
Hint 4 of 5
Finish across with someone who loves playing tricks on April Fools' Day, and a description of a snake's split tongue.
Hint 5 of 5
Down runs from a famous opera performed over a thousand times at the Met, a casual phrase for stating the limits of your knowledge, and a habitual visitor to Reddit forums, through baby-ish speech patterns, a common abbreviation for a nonprofit aid group, what a foldout couch becomes at night, something overly sentimental or cute, a unit of measurement on a football field, being away from work, and a word meaning also.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- Vacation rental — AIRBNB
- When woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers roamed the earth — ICEAGE
- Father figure? — DADBOD
- Comedian Samberg — ANDY
- ___-bitty — ITTY
- Canada's capital — OTTAWA
- April 1st prankster — FOOLER
- Like the tongues of snakes — FORKED
- Famed opera with over 1,000 performances at the Met — AIDA
- "As far as ___ tell ..." — ICAN
- Frequent visitor to websites with "r/" in their names — REDDITOR
- Wittle, e.g. — BABYTALK
- Many a foreign aid grp. — NGO
- What a convertible sofa converts into — BED
- Overly cutesy — TWEE
- Football field unit — YARD
- Not working today — OFF
- In addition — TOO
This puzzle by the numbers
- 8 across, 10 down
- REDDITOR (8)
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