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If you know your skirt lengths, you’ll do OK on the NYT Mini Crossword today. Helps to know a French painter, an NBA team and a famous Christmas movie too. Need some more 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.
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The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Feb. 5, 2025.
Mini across clues and answers
1A clue: Facebook’s parent company
Answer: META
5A clue: Full-length skirts … and a morning hour read backward
Answer: MAXIS
6A clue: Written with pen
Answer: ININK
7A clue: N.B.A. team that nearly renamed itself the Swamp Dragons in the 1990s
Answer: NETS
8A clue: “___ a Wonderful Life”
Answer: ITS
Mini down clues and answers
1D clue: French modernist painter … and a morning hour read backward
Answer: MANET
2D clue: What lighted signs mark in theaters
Answer: EXITS
3D clue: Altoids containers
Answer: TINS
4D clue: Pose a question
Answer: ASK
5D clue: Short skirt
Answer: MINI
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