The NYT Mini Crossword for Monday, July 20, 2026, is live. Here are all ten answers with their clues, whether you need a single nudge or the full grid.
Across
1A – “Sound of an online message”: PING
5A – “Underwater detection device”: SONAR
6A – “Chicago’s ___ Presidential Center”: OBAMA
7A – “Appropriate anagram of VENMO, if you change the ‘V’ to a ‘Y'”: MONEY
8A – “Potentially awkward wedding guests”: EXES
Down
1D – “Destination for mail that doesn’t go to your home address, perhaps”: POBOX
2D – “Ridiculous”: INANE
3D – “Things debated by expectant parents”: NAMES
4D – “Color of an overcast sky”: GRAY
5D – “‘___ assembly required'”: SOME
A cleanly modern Monday grid. 7A was the puzzle’s most inventive clue – VENMO with the V swapped for a Y gives YENMO, which is not a word, but the clue is asking you to anagram VENMO (the payment app) after the swap, landing on MONEY. It is a double operation buried in a single sentence, which is unusually crafty for a Mini. 6A (OBAMA Presidential Center, under construction in Chicago’s Jackson Park) and 8A (EXES at a wedding) kept the grid grounded in recognisable contemporary life. POBOX as a single run-on answer for P.O. Box is standard crossword compression.
For the rest of today’s puzzle lineup, see our guides for Wordle #1857, NYT Connections #1135, and NYT Strands #869.
