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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? The only clue that puzzled me was 6-Across, but if you fill in the other answers, you can solve it. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

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

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Cold winter blanket
Answer: SNOW

5A clue: Number of candles in a full menorah
Answer: NINE

6A clue: «Point taken»
Answer: NOTED

7A clue: Rude sound at the dinner table
Answer: BURP

8A clue: Kind of bomb developed by Oppenheimer
Answer: ATOM

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Dog’s nose and mouth
Answer: SNOUT

2D clue: ___ cold brew
Answer: NITRO

3D clue: An hour after noon
Answer: ONEPM

4D clue: Get married to
Answer: WED

6D clue: Org. infiltrated by aliens in «Space Jam»
Answer: NBA

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Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles.

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one. There are some crazy terms in the green group, especially. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.

Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

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

Yellow group hint: College division.

Green group hint: I got it!

Blue group hint: Hoopster’s resume.

Purple group hint: Found at the beach.

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: Big 12 teams.

Green group: Descriptors for baseball catches.

Blue group: Teams Skylar Diggins has played for.

Purple group: Sand ____.

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

What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is Big 12 teams. The four answers are Cowboys, Mountaineers, Red Raiders and Wildcats.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is descriptors for baseball catches. The four answers are basket, circus, shoestring and snow cone.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is teams Skylar Diggins has played for. The four answers are Fighting Irish, Mercury, Storm and Wings.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is sand ____. The four answers are bagging, lot, trap and wedge.

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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.

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one, with a special twist — the answers will show up in color! There’s a reason for that. If you need hints and answers, read on.

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

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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: Palette episodes

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Rainbow shows.

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:

• NULL, COOL, ROTE, DOLE, SORT, STAR, STARS, STARE, STARES, HIDE

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 have 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:

• BLUE, BLOODS, GREEN, ACRES, GOLDEN, GIRLS, WHITE, LOTUS

(The answers are all TV shows with two-word titles, where one word is a color.)

Today’s Strands spangram

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

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