NYT Mini Crossword — October 25, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's grid opens across with the folk-music genre associated with Joni Mitchell and Woody Guthrie, then the embankment built to hold back flooding rivers.
Hint 2 of 5
Continue across with a casual phrase for clarifying what you just said, a groovy music genre sharing its first and last letters with the folk clue, and the abbreviation for hospital rooms usually found on the ground floor.
Hint 3 of 5
Down begins with the longest and strongest bone in the human leg, and a row of baking appliances you'd find in a cooking classroom.
Hint 4 of 5
Continue down with a dripping pipe issue a plumber would fix, and the name of a certain famous plastic doll's boyfriend.
Hint 5 of 5
Down ends with the iconic photo magazine that put Elizabeth Taylor on its cover more times than anyone else.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
- Music genre for Joni Mitchell or Woody Guthrie — FOLK
- Flood embankment — LEVEE
- "That is to say ..." — IMEAN
- Music genre with the same first and last letters as 1-Across — FUNK
- Hosp. areas that are usually on the ground floor — ERS
- Strongest bone in the human body — FEMUR
- Array in a culinary classroom — OVENS
- Plumbing problem — LEAK
- He's a doll! — KEN
- Magazine whose cover featured Elizabeth Taylor a record 14 times — LIFE
This puzzle by the numbers
- 5 across, 5 down
- LEVEE (5)
Counted from our own archive of NYT Mini Crossword answers — not published anywhere else.
