NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025

NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025

NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025originally appeared onParade. If you're anything like me, the day is not complete until I finish all of the free word games from the New York Times. Working on the dailyConnections,WordleandStrandsis a whole ritual for many of us. And we can't forget about the NYT's The Mini Crossword, too!Although the NYT is known for "The Crossword," a larger puzzle for paid subscribers, The Mini has quite the fan-following as well. This particular game resets at 10 p.m., unlike some of the others that start over at midnight.So, if you're working on today's Mini on Monday, June 2, 2025, and need some help (I've been there), get ready to read the clues and solutions for each line. We have them separated into hints first for both "Across" and "Down" words, followed by "Across Answers" and "Down Answers," so be careful if you want to avoid spoilers as you scroll!Related:16 Games Like Wordle To Give You Your Word Game Fix More Than Once Every 24 Hours Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. 1 Across: Film by the Coen brothers set almost entirely in Minnesota (not North Dakota) —HINT: Ends with the letter "O"6 Across: Phrase that's tough to translate, maybe —HINT: Starts with the letter "I"7 Across: Skirts often worn with pointe shoes —HINT: Starts with the letter "T"8 Across: Was in front —HINT: Ends with the letter "D"9 Across: Org. now checking for Real IDs —HINT: Ends with the letter "A" 1 Down: In shape —HINT: Ends with the letter "T"2 Down: Kind of content that might require age verification online —HINT: Starts with the letter "A"3 Down: Baptisms and bat mitzvahs —HINT: Starts with the letter "R"4 Down: Cheese that's frequently smoked —HINT: Ends with the letter "A"5 Down: Sounds from meditators —HINT: Ends with the letter "S" Don't go any further unless you want to knowexactlywhat the correct words are in today's Mini Crossword. 1 Across: Film by the Coen brothers set almost entirely in Minnesota (not North Dakota) —FARGO6 Across: Phrase that's tough to translate, maybe —IDIOM7 Across: Skirts often worn with pointe shoes —TUTUS8 Across: Was in front —LED9 Across: Org. now checking for Real IDs —TSA 1 Down: In shape —FIT2 Down: Kind of content that might require age verification online —ADULT3 Down: Baptisms and bat mitzvahs —RITES4 Down: Cheese that's frequently smoked —GOUDA5 Down: Sounds from meditators —OMSThat's it! How quickly were you able to complete today's Mini?!Up Next: Related: 15 Fun Games Like Connections to Play Every Day NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025first appeared on Parade on Jun 2, 2025 This story was originally reported byParadeon Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.

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NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025

NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025 NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Monday, June 2, 2025originally appeared onP...

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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, It's the Muppet Show!

Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, It's the Muppet Show!

USA TODAY and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solvetoday's puzzlebefore reading further!It's the Muppet Show! Constructor:Justin Werfel Editor:Anna Gundlach ALAN (16A: "Galaxy Quest" actor Rickman)Galaxy Questis a 1999 movie that parodies and pays homage to sci-fi movies and TV series and their fandoms. In the movie, fans of a fictional cult TV series,Galaxy Quest, become involved in an interstellar conflict with aliens who think the series is a documentary. ALAN Rickman portrays Alexander Dane, the ship's science officer on the fictional series, who is a member of an alien species known for superhuman intelligence, and whose catchphrase is "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" Although I know ALAN Rickman, and so was able to figure out the answer here, I was not familiar with this movie. In learning aboutGalaxy Quest, I discovered that scenes of the alien planet were filmed at Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. My husband and I have been to that park. It's an amazing place, and with its red rock hoodoos (rock formations) it does look a bit alien. GONZO JOURNALISM (35A: Hunter S. Thompson's reporting style) GONZO JOURNALISM is a non-objective style of reporting that centers personal experience and emotion rather than the detached style of traditional JOURNALISM. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) was a journalist and author. For his 1967 book,Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club in order to write a first-hand account of the experience. In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson wrote an article forScanlan's Monthlytitled "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved." An editor ofThe Boston Globecommented on the Kentucky Derby article, saying it was "pure GONZO JOURNALISM." This was the first use of the term GONZO JOURNALISM. TAMPA (8A: Florida city near St. Petersburg) TAMPA is located on the west side of Florida, with coastline on TAMPA Bay and Old TAMPA Bay. The city of St. Petersburg, Florida is also located on TAMPA Bay – it's across the bay from TAMPA. The port of TAMPA BAY is the largest in the state of Florida. APE (13A: Donkey Kong or King Kong) Donkey Kong is the titular gorilla of theDonkey Kongvideo game franchise. King Kong is a gorilla-like monster who has appeared in movies, comics, video games, and TV series since 1933. An APE is a tailless primate, and the classification includes gorillas. HULU (14A: "Shogun" streaming service)Shōgunis a HULU TV series that premiered in 2024. The show is based on James Clavell's 1975 novel of the same name. A 1980 miniseries of the same name by Paramount Television was also based on the novel. HULU'sShōgunseries features a mostly Japanese cast and much of the dialogue is in Japanese.Shōgunwon a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. It is the first Japanese-language series to win that award. WALDORF ASTORIA (19A: Luxury resort brand of Hilton Worldwide) According to their website,WALDORF ASTORIAhas resorts in a number of locations worldwide, including Doha, Qatar; Beverly Hills, California; Osaka, Japan; and Beijing, China. RTS (24A: Some football linemen (Abbr.)) In football, RTS are right tackles. I'm pretty sure I learned that information from a crossword puzzle at some point. LEG (27A: One of a quadruped's four) In this photo, my cat, Willow is showing all four of her LEGs, helpfully demonstrating that she's a quadruped. DUSTS (40A: Does a housecleaning task) My husband and I do a fairly good job of working together to keep our house clean. We make a pretty good team, because we are generally bothered by different types of messes, so we each take responsibility for cleaning those that bother us. However, neither my husband nor I DUSTS on a regular basis; apparently DUST doesn't bother either of us as much as it should. THE (43A: Most common word in English) Just for fun, I counted up the number of times the word THE appears in this article. THE answer is 101 times. ALEC (55A: Actor and comedian Mapa) The comedy special,ALEC Mapa, Baby Daddy, premiered on Showtime in 2015, and is based on ALEC Mapa's one-man show of the same name. The show tells the story of ALEC Mapa's experience of becoming a father through the process of foster adoption. INCA (56A: Creator of a 40,000 km-long South American road system) In the late 1400s and early 1500s, the INCA Empire incorporated a large part of western South America, including portions of the modern-day countries of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia. The INCA built an extensive and advanced road system that had two main north-south roads. One of the main roads ran along the west coast of South America, while the other main road was further inland and in the mountains. Both roads had numerous branches. SUET (58A: Beef fat in some bird feeders) This clue feels timely for me, as the birds in our neighborhood have been particularly hungry recently. For the last week I have been putting a new SUET block in the bird feeders on a daily basis. DALAI (1D: ___ Lama) The Dalai LAMA is a spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism. The current and 14th Dalai LAMA is Tenzin Gyatso. ELSA (6D: "Frozen" princess) In the 2013 Disney animate movie,Frozen, the princess ELSA is voiced by Idina Menzel. Wait, has it really been 12 years since we first heard"Let it Go,"ELSA's iconic song? TAHOE (8D: Lake on the California/Nevada border) Lake TAHOE is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the California/Nevada border, and is the second-deepest lake in the U.S., after Oregon's Crater Lake. MAUI (10D: Second-largest Hawaiian island) and LEIS (27D: Hawaiian necklaces) As the clue informs us, MAUI is the second-largest Hawaiian island; the largest is Hawai'i. If you visit any of the Hawaiian islands, you're likely to receive LEIS. PITA (11D: Bread served with hummus) and ATE (12D: Had some hummus) It's fun to see hummus linking these two consecutive clues together. PITA is making back-to-back puzzle appearances, as we saw ityesterdayclued as [Pocketed bread for souvlaki]. MONA (33D: "___ Lisa") Leonardo da Vinci's paintingMONA Lisais on display at the Louvre in Paris, France. BLUE SKIES (34D: Jazz standard that describes sunny weather) The jazz standard "BLUE SKIES" was written by Irving Berlin in 1926. The song was written (as a last-minute addition) for the Rodgers and Hart musicalBetsy. Although the musical wasn't much of a success, the song became a hit. It has been sung by numerous artists over the years, includingBing Crosby and Danny Kayefor the 1954 movieWhite Christmas. "BLUE SKIES, smilin' at me / Nothin' but BLUE SKIES do I see..." RIVER (44D: Tigris or Euphrates) The Tigris RIVER and the Euphrates RIVER both begin in the Armenian highlands of Turkey and then flow, in a somewhat parallel fashion, down through valleys and gorges in a south-easterly fashion before joining and discharging into the Persian Gulf. The Tigris-Euphrates RIVER system lies in the Fertile Crescent region where Mesopotamian civilization flourished. HENRY (47D: Shakespeare wrote seven plays about kings with this name) The seven plays William Shakespeare wrote about kings named HENRY are (rather unimaginatively) titledHENRY IV, Part 1, HENRY IV, Part 2, HENRY V, HENRY VI, Part 1, HENRY VI, Part 2, HENRY VI, Part 3, andHENRY VIII. ORCAS (48D: Whales commonly seen in Haida art) The Haida are indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. They are one of 231 federally recognized tribes in Alaska. ORCAS are prominent and significant symbols in Haida art and stories. CLUE (53D: You're reading one right now) Self-referential CLUEs always bring a smile to my face. AOL (54D: "You've got mail" ISP) Who else is old enough that they can still hear AOL's "You've got mail" message in their head? I sometimes wish I had saved all of the CDs AOL sent me in the mail, as they surely would have been useful for making some marvelous, creative artwork. (Actually, I'm extremely glad I did not save all of those CDs...) WALDORF ASTORIA (19A: Luxury resort brand of Hilton Worldwide) GONZO JOURNALISM (35A: Hunter S. Thompson's reporting style) ANIMAL CRACKERS (50A: Zoo-or circus-themed snacks) IT'S THE MUPPET SHOW: The first words of the theme answers are names of characters onTHE MUPPET SHOW: WALDORF, GONZO, and ANIMAL. CueThe Muppet Showtheme song, "It's time to play the music / It's time to light the lights / It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight..." As a tremendous fan ofThe Muppet Show, I thoroughly enjoyed this theme. The Muppets we're meeting in today's puzzle are: WALDORF - one of the two elderly men (along with Statler) who sit in the balcony of the show and heckle people, GONZO - a Muppet of ambiguous species who is known for his passion for performing stunts, and ANIMAL - the wild and frenetic drummer of the Muppet band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Congratulations to Justin Werfel on aUSA Todaydebut! Thank you, Justin, for this delightful puzzle. USA TODAY's Daily Crossword Puzzles Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Crossword Blog & Answers for June 2, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher

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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, It's the Muppet Show!

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Tulsa's new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to 'repair' impact of 1921 Race Massacre

Tulsa's new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to 'repair' impact of 1921 Race Massacre

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa's new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the1921 Tulsa Race Massacrescholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The plan byMayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma's second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob. Nichols said he does not use the term reparations, which he calls politically charged, characterizing his sweeping plan instead as a "road to repair." "For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city's history," Nichols said Sunday after receiving a standing ovation from several hundred people. "The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments. "Now it's time to take the next big steps to restore." Nichols said the proposal wouldn't require city council approval, although the council would need to authorize the transfer of any city property to the trust, something he said was highly likely. The private charitable trust would be created with a goal to secure $105 million in assets, with most of the funding either secured or committed by June 1, 2026. Although details would be developed over the next year by an executive director and a board of managers, the plan calls for the bulk of the funding, $60 million, to go toward improving buildings and revitalizing the city's north side. "The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce," Nichols said in a telephone interview. "So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the Black community. It actually robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have rivaled anywhere else in the world." Nichols' proposal follows an executive order he signed earlier this year recognizing June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, an official city holiday. Events Sunday in the Greenwood District included a picnic for families, worship services and an evening candlelight vigil. Nichols also realizes the current national political climate, particularlyPresident Trump's sweeping assaulton diversity, equity and inclusion programs, poses challenging political crosswinds. "The fact that this lines up with a broader national conversation is a tough environment," Nichols admitted, "but it doesn't change the work we have to do." Jacqueline Weary, is a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and cab company in Greenwood that were destroyed. She acknowledged the political difficulty of giving cash payments to descendants. But at the same time, she wondered how much of her family's wealth was lost in the violence. "If Greenwood was still there, my grandfather would still have his hotel," said Weary, 65. "It rightfully was our inheritance, and it was literally taken away." Tulsa is not the first U.S. city to explore reparations. The Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, was thefirst U.S. city to make reparationsavailable to its Black residents for past discrimination, offering qualifying households $25,000 for home repairs, down payments on property, and interest or late penalties on property in the city. The funding for the program came from taxes on the sale of recreational marijuana. Other communities and organizations that have considered providing reparations range from the state of California to cities includingAmherst, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island;Asheville, North Carolina; andIowa City, Iowa; religious denominations like the Episcopal Church; and prominent colleges like Georgetown University in Washington. In Tulsa, there are only two living survivors of the Race Massacre, both of whom are 110 years old: Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher. The women, both of whom were in attendance on Sunday, received direct financial compensation from both aTulsa-based nonprofitand aNew York-based philanthropic organization, but have not received any recompense from the city or state. Damario Solomon-Simmons, an attorney for the survivors and the founder of the Justice for Greenwood Foundation, said earlier this year that any reparations plan should include direct payments to Randle and Fletcher and a victims' compensation fund for outstanding claims. A lawsuit filed by Solomon-Simmons on behalf of the survivors wasrejected by the Oklahoma Supreme Courtlast year, dampening racial justice advocates' hopes that the city would ever make financial amends.

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Tulsa's new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to 'repair' impact of 1921 Race Massacre

Tulsa's new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to 'repair' impact of 1921 Race Massacre TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa's new mayor ...

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Newark Airport to open its shuttered runway Monday, 13 days ahead of schedule

Newark Airport to open its shuttered runway Monday, 13 days ahead of schedule

Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday will reopen a closed runway that has contributed to weeks of delays and chaos at the travel hub. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will lead a news conference from the airport Monday to mark the runway's reopening. Runway 4L-22R — which is 11,000 feet long — has been undergoing "planned rehabilitation" after showing "significant signs of wear" and has now been deemed safe and up to the Federal Aviation Administration's standards, according to areleasefrom the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Newark Airport. It had last been rehabilitated in 2014, and runways are typically updated about every 10 years, the statement said. According to the release, the $121 million project began in early March and was set to be finished on June 15. The project included "milling and paving the runway surface, updating lighting, improving airfield signs with LED lighting, installing new underground electrical infrastructure, and implementing drainage improvements." Before it was fully shut down on April 15, the runway was closed on nights and weekends to accommodate the construction schedule. To ensure the runway is fully revamped by the end of the year, the Port Authority said it will continue to close on weeknights and again on weekends at the end of the year. However, Monday's reopening will allow "regular runway operations to resume," the statement said. During runway 4L-22R's planned future closures, two other runways at the airport will remain fully operational. "As we approach the busy summer travel season, this key milestone puts us on a path to further reducing congestion, enhancing safety, and ensuring a seamless travel experience," Duffy said in the Port Authority statement. "With the runway completed, we'll continue our work to harden the telecoms infrastructure and improving the staffing pipeline for the airspace." The planned runway construction was not the only reason passengersflying in and out of Newarkhave faced delays and cancelations this spring. Air traffic controllers serving the airport have experienced anumber of communications blackoutswhile directing planes in the areain recent monthsdue toequipment failures, prompting the FAA on May 20 toreduce the number of flightsto and from Newark until the planned runway construction was complete. "Our goal is to relieve the substantial inconvenience to the traveling public from excessive flight delays due to construction, staffing challenges, and recent equipment issues, which magnify as they spread through the National Airspace System," acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau said at the time of the announcement.

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Newark Airport to open its shuttered runway Monday, 13 days ahead of schedule

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'Mad Men' reunion: Jon Hamm, John Slattery on fake cigarettes, finale, blackface episode

'Mad Men' reunion: Jon Hamm, John Slattery on fake cigarettes, finale, blackface episode

AUSTIN, TX – Pour yourself an old fashioned or a Coca-Cola. We're traveling back to the time of "Mad Men." Jon Hamm, who won an Emmy for his portrayal of the brilliant ad man Don Draper, andJohn Slattery− who played his boss Roger Sterling – reunited 10 years afterthe finale of the AMC series, created by Matthew Weiner, as part of theATX TV Festival. On May 31, the actors took the stage at a packed Paramount Theatre and reminisced about their days filming seven seasons of the drama centered on a New York advertising agency in the 1960s. The series also starredChristinaHendricks, January Jones,Elisabeth MossandKiernanShipka. Hamm, 54, said that he had a broken hand while filming the scene when Moss' Peggy Olson is promoted to copywriter. So he asked Moss to be mindful and only softly squeeze it during a congratulatory handshake. But she forgot about the injury, Hamm said, and "hits me with a handshake that is like a president handshake, and a lightning bolt goes all the way through me and I hit the floor so hard." Slattery, 62, shared his disdain for his Season 7 mustache and again revealed he had first auditioned for the role of Don, though they'd already cast Hamm in the part. Producers lured Slattery with the Draper role, hoping to convince him to apply for agency owner Roger Sterling, who had a smaller part in the pilot. Hamm says he auditioned for the enigmatic Don, aka Dick Whitman, about nine times. Hamm and Slattery dished on the tricks that helped viewers believe they were chain-smoking, booze-guzzling men of that era. "I think somebody did a count," Hamm said, "and in the pilot alone I smoked 75 cigarettes or something." They were fake, Slattery pointed out. "That just means that there's no nicotine in them." Hamm said. "It doesn't mean you're not burning something and inhaling…" Hamm said some of the younger actors in the pilot episode vowed to smoke real cigarettes to more authentically portray their characters. "Within three days," he said, "they were yellow and sallow and like, 'This is a terrible idea.'" In place of vodka, the actors would sip water, garnished with onions. "Pop another pearl onion in your glass of water and then you'd smoke 26 more fake cigarettes, and it was 9:30 in the morning," Slattery said. "It was disgusting." During the Q&A portion of the panel, a fan asked about Hamm's interpretation of the finale. In the series' last moments, Don dreamed up the"I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" adwhile meditating on a California cliff. Weiner envisioned Don's end in Season 1, Hamm said. "He reached the end of land as far away as he could from his life and realized that his life was creating advertising. That was his revelation, that this is what he is and what he does. He's not Dick Whitman. He's not Don Draper. He's some version of this, but he is an advertising man and that was, I think, positive." Slattery told fans that when he was asked to sing "My Old Kentucky Home" in blackface in Season 3, he phoned Hamm, seeking his costar's thoughts. Ultimately, Slattery "felt like, 'Well, this is probably something that occurred and it's probably something that this character would've done. So what leg do I have to stand on not to do it?" After arriving on location in character, Slattery said, "The first person I opened the van and saw was a very large African American Los Angeles motorcycle cop, who was helping me open the door. "We're like face to face," Slattery continued. "I had to go and sing that thing in front of them and everybody." In 2020, "Mad Men" added a title card to the episode (the series streams on AMC+ and Philo),prefacing it with a warningof "disturbing images." "In its reliance on historical authenticity," the card read, "the series producers are committed to exposing the injustices and inequities within our society that continue to this day so we can examine even the most painful parts of our history in order to reflect on who we are today and who we want to become. We are therefore presenting the original episode in its entirety." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Jon Hamm talks 'Mad Men' finale and Don's enlightening 'revelation'

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'Mad Men' reunion: Jon Hamm, John Slattery on fake cigarettes, finale, blackface episode

'Mad Men' reunion: Jon Hamm, John Slattery on fake cigarettes, finale, blackface episode AUSTIN, TX – Pour yourself an old fashioned...

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