All 10 NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, August 10, 2026 are below, across and down, with clue notes for today’s trickiest entries.
NYT Mini Crossword Across Answers – August 10, 2026
1-Across: TAP – “___ to pay” (modern prompt). Contactless payment screens now read “Tap to pay” as the default instruction for card and phone payments.
4-Across: HOWTO – “Helpful book genre.” How-to books cover practical instruction across cooking, home repair, finance, and nearly every other subject on the shelf.
6-Across: ONION – “Source of the headline ‘Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent on Land,’ with ‘The.'” The Onion is the long-running American satirical publication known for deadpan fake headlines that read as plausibly real.
7-Across: SUNNY – “Summer forecast.” The simplest clue on the board and the grid’s clearest gimme.
8-Across: ESS – “Curvy shape.” ESS is the letter S used as a noun, describing any S-shaped curve. It appears regularly in Mini Crosswords as a three-letter fill word.
NYT Mini Crossword Down Answers – August 10, 2026
1-Down: TWINS – “The sisters on ‘Sister, Sister’ or the brothers on ‘Property Brothers.'” The clue pairs an older teen sitcom with a contemporary renovation series, both anchored by twin hosts.
2-Down: ATON – “Lots and lots.” A ton in colloquial speech means an overwhelming or very large amount, written as one word in the grid.
3-Down: PONY – “Pay (up).” To pony up is an informal phrase meaning to hand over money, especially reluctantly. The clue’s parenthetical “up” signals the phrasal verb.
4-Down: HOSE – “Fire truck attachment.” Garden and firefighting hoses both qualify, but the fire truck framing makes this unambiguous and fast to solve.
5-Down: ONUS – “Heavy burden.” From the Latin for load or burden, ONUS appears in common phrases such as “the onus is on you” to mean responsibility or obligation.
The standout clue today is 6-Across. Solvers unfamiliar with The Onion’s catalogue of satirical headlines may have struggled to place ONION without crossing letters from the down answers. Once 4-Down HOSE or 5-Down ONUS locks in the final two letters, the newspaper’s name resolves cleanly. Yesterday’s Mini Crossword answers are available in NYT Mini Crossword answers coverage today.
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