The answers to Monday’s NYT Mini Crossword (July 6, 2026) are below.
Today’s grid runs on the easier side. The pop-culture clue at 4-Across – Ron’s assistant on Parks and Recreation – is the entry most likely to split solvers: APRIL Ludgate is immediately familiar to anyone who watched the show, considerably less so to those who didn’t. MAINE at 7-Across has a clean geography hook (it borders only New Hampshire among U.S. states), and BAMBI at 1-Down is a direct Disney reference with a pattern most solvers land quickly. The remaining entries – BAT, BROKE, ITS, APART, TRIOS, INK, LEE – sit well within everyday vocabulary and should cause little friction.
Across
- 1-Across: BAT – Halloween silhouette
- 4-Across: APRIL – Ron’s assistant on “Parks and Recreation”
- 7-Across: MAINE – State that borders only one other state
- 8-Across: BROKE – Out of money
- 9-Across: ITS – “___ all good!”
Down
- 1-Down: BAMBI – Disney deer
- 2-Down: APART – Split up
- 3-Down: TRIOS – Groups of three
- 5-Down: INK – Octopus’s defense against predators
- 6-Down: LEE – Harper ___, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
The clue at 6-Down doubles as a quiet literary note: Harper LEE published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 and, for decades, it stood as her only novel. Go Set a Watchman followed in 2015, though its publication circumstances remain debated. Solvers who know the name will fill the three-letter answer instantly; those who don’t may work backward from the crossing letters, which is a reliable path given how cleanly BAT and BAMBI lock in the B at the grid’s top-left corner.
For more from today’s Word Desk, the Wordle July 6 answer is live with today’s solution for puzzle #1843. Yesterday’s Mini Crossword answers for July 5, 2026, are in the NYT Mini Crossword July 5 article.
