The answers to today’s NYT Mini Crossword (Friday, July 10, 2026) are below. Scroll past the hints if you want the full solution right away, or work through them one by one to stay in the game.
Hints (spoiler-free)
- 1-Across is a three-letter federal agency – the one that chased a famous con man across continents in a Steven Spielberg film.
- 4-Across and 7-Across are opposites, each clued as a game-show sound effect.
- 6-Across is a unit of weight smaller than a pound; its standard abbreviation ends in the letter “z.”
- 8-Across is an abbreviated plural typically used for tall peaks like Everest.
- 4-Down is a floor-level dance move that comes with a definite article.
NYT Mini Crossword Answers – July 10, 2026
Across
- 1-Across: FBI – Org. trying to catch Frank Abagnale in “Catch Me If You Can”
- 4-Across: WRONG – [Bzzt!]
- 6-Across: OUNCE – Unit of weight whose abbreviation ends in “z”
- 7-Across: RIGHT – [Ding, ding ding!]
- 8-Across: MTS – Everest and Kilimanjaro: Abbr.
Down
- 1-Down: FRUIT – Lemon or lychee
- 2-Down: BONGS – Glassware for pot smokers
- 3-Down: INCH – 1/12 of a foot
- 4-Down: WORM – Dance move done on the ground, with “the”
- 5-Down: GET – Acquire
The trickiest entry today is MTS – an abbreviated plural that rarely turns up outside geography-heavy grids. The 4-Across and 7-Across pairing (WRONG and RIGHT) gives the puzzle an unspoken game-show logic: both clues arrive as bracketed sound effects, so the grid becomes its own quiz. The 1-Across reference reaches back to Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays real-life con man Frank Abagnale, hunted across continents by an FBI agent played by Tom Hanks. Friday Minis run harder than the early-week puzzles – today’s lean word list keeps the difficulty firmly in Friday territory.
For more NYT puzzle coverage today, see the NYT Connections answers for July 10, 2026 and the NYT Strands answers for July 10, 2026. Yesterday’s NYT Mini Crossword for July 9 is also available.
