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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword has a lot of Os and a couple of Qs, so think of words containing those letters. It helps if you know your basketball players and your electric cars, too. No Easter theme, despite the holiday. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times’ games collection. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Speaking confidently but dishonestly
Answer: GLIB

5A clue: Traditional dance at a Jewish wedding
Answer: HORA

6A clue: «Scram!»
Answer: GOAWAY

8A clue: Hyundai electric car with a creatively spelled name
Answer: IONIQ

9A clue: Hoops legend with size 22 shoes
Answer: SHAQ

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Africa’s largest exporter of gold
Answer: GHANA

2D clue: Score that’s nowhere near Mensa-worthy
Answer: LOWIQ

3D clue: Baghdad’s country
Answer: IRAQ

4D clue: Loading area for trucks
Answer: BAY

6D clue: Army soldiers, for short
Answer: GIS

7D clue: ___ and aah
Answer: OOH

How to play more Mini Crosswords

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Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

If you know what holiday today is, then the new NYT Strands puzzle should be a breeze. The New York Times doesn’t always theme its puzzles to holidays, but it went all-out with this one. If you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. 

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: On the hunt.

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Today’s holiday.

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints, but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

• CRAB, BRAT, TONE, RACK, DENT, YEAST, EAST, CANE, CHOP, BUSY, COLA, SACK.

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you’ve got all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

• BOOK, EGGS, TOYS, BUNNY, CANDY, PEEPS, CHOCOLATE.

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is EASTERBASKET. To find it, start with the E that’s four letters down on the far-left row, and wind across.

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Happy Easter! Whether or not you celebrate, you probably recognized quite a few words related to the holiday in today’s Connections puzzle. But you also knew it couldn’t be quite that easy — those words all had other groupings. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Did you see that?

Green group hint: Hippie-style top.

Blue group hint: Sidewalks have them.

Purple group hint: Yes, the Easter bunny does this.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Glimpse.

Green group: Needs for tie-dying a shirt.

Blue group: Things you can crack.

Purple group: Words before «hop.»

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is glimpse. The four answers are gander, glance, look and peep.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is needs for tie-dying a shirt. The four answers are basin, dye, rubber bands and shirt.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is things you can crack. The four answers are code, egg, joke and whip.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is words before «hop.» The four answers are bar, bunny, hip and sock.