Today’s NYT Mini Answer For Tuesday March 11 2025

Across
PDF
📄 Common format for e-signed documents.
🖥️ Stands for “Portable Document Format.”
🔄 Often used for forms, contracts, and scanned pages.

GOALS
🏆 Things you aspire to achieve in life.
⚽ What soccer players try to score.
📈 Can be personal, career-related, or fitness-related.

AWFUL
🤦 “This thesaurus is terrible. Not only is it terrible, it’s also ___!” (joke).
😖 Opposite of “amazing” or “wonderful.”
🚨 Can describe a bad movie, food, or experience.

LEFTY
✋ A person who primarily uses their left hand.
⚾ A baseball pitcher who throws with their left hand.
🎸 Paul McCartney is famously one of these musicians.

RYE
🍞 A type of bread often used in deli sandwiches.
🌾 A grain used for baking and making whiskey.
🥪 Often paired with pastrami or corned beef.

Down
POWER
🌺 Follows “flower” in a 1960s peace movement phrase.
🔥 Follows “fire” when referring to a strong explosion.
⚡ Something electricity and superheroes both have.

DAFFY
🦆 Looney Tunes character with a speech quirk.
🎥 Known for saying, “You’re dethpicable!”
🤪 Often gets into trouble with Bugs Bunny.

FLUTE
🎶 A woodwind instrument played by blowing across a hole.
🌬️ What you might blow into when you’re “blowin’ in the wind.”
🎼 Often used in orchestras, jazz, and folk music.

GAL
🎭 Actress Gadot, known for playing Wonder Woman.
🌍 A casual way to say “girl” or “woman.”
💪 Often used in phrases like “she’s one tough ___.”

SLY
🦊 An adjective often used to describe a cunning fox.
😏 Someone who is sneaky or clever.
🎭 Can also mean playful mischief or trickery.