NYT Mini Crossword Answers May 22, 2025

Across
1 Part of a fleet (Answer: SHIP)
🚢 4 letters, starts with S, ends with P
⚓ Travels the seas
🛳️ Part of a navy
🧭 Navigates oceans
📦 Used for cargo
🏴‍☠️ May fly a pirate flag
🎖️ Military vessel
🧱 Built in a yard
🌊 Can be a cruise
🚢 Often docked in a port

5 Answer to Gollum’s riddle in “The Hobbit” (Answer: TIME)
⏳ 4 letters, starts with T, ends with E
📖 Gollum’s riddle answer
🕰️ Devours all
⏱️ Constantly ticking
🎂 Ages everyone
🌅 Waits for no one
📆 Can be spent or saved
⌛ An illusion, they say
🧓 Brings wrinkles
🧠 Flows differently in dreams

6 “See ya!” (Answer: LATER)
👋 5 letters, starts with L, ends with R
🙋 Casual farewell
🕒 Implies a return
📱 Often texted
🚪 Said while leaving
🎵 Title in many songs
👟 Out the door word
🌇 Often means soon
😄 Informal goodbye
🛫 Used when departing

7 Second-most popular girl’s name of the 2020s (Answer: EMMA)
👶 4 letters, starts with E, ends with A
🎀 Popular girl name
📈 Second to Olivia
📚 Jane Austen title
🎬 Watson’s first name
🌸 Feminine and classic
🎓 Easy to pronounce
👩‍🎤 Common in pop culture
🍼 Often top-ranked
👧 Palindrome name

8 Not keeping secrets (Answer: OPEN)
🗣️ 4 letters, starts with O, ends with N
🔓 Not closed
📖 Transparent
🪟 Unshuttered
💬 Honest communication
🌉 Opposite of guarded
🏡 Door might be this
🧠 Vulnerable
🤝 Inviting
📂 Files can be this

Down
1 Sticker on an envelope (Answer: STAMP)
✉️ 5 letters, starts with S, ends with P
📮 Postal necessity
📫 Goes on mail
🖼️ Tiny adhesive square
📬 Marks payment
🛂 Passport gets one
💌 Often collectible
🎨 May feature art
🕊️ Commemorative versions exist
🇺🇸 USPS issues them

2 “I’d like another card,” in blackjack (Answer: HITME)
🃏 5 letters, starts with H, ends with E
♠️ Request in blackjack
♦️ Ask the dealer
🃠 Risky in 21
♣️ Spoken at the table
🧠 Strategic move
💥 Can lead to bust
😬 Said with hope
🎲 Game term
🖐️ Raise hand to get one

3 “Uhh, that is to say …” (Answer: IMEAN)
💬 5 letters, starts with I, ends with N
😅 Clarification phrase
🗯️ Often follows a pause
🗣️ Signals correction
🧠 Used to rephrase
🤷 Indicates hesitation
📚 Common in speech
🙊 Often filler
📣 Starts a revision
🎤 Spoken mid-sentence

4 The “p” of m.p.h. (Answer: PER)
📏 3 letters, starts with P, ends with R
🚗 Miles ___ hour
🔄 Indicates rate
📚 Found in math
💬 “For each” synonym
🧮 Used in formulas
🧾 Appears in pricing
💡 Concept of division
⏱️ Measures frequency
⚖️ Rate per unit

6 Name taken by the new pope (Answer: LEO)
👑 3 letters, starts with L, ends with O
🕊️ Papal name
📖 Many popes had it
🇮🇹 Common Vatican title
🦁 Shares name with an animal
⛪ Historic pope name
📿 Often followed by Roman numeral
🗝️ Papal bull signer
📜 Old Latin name
💒 13th was a famous one