NYT Mini Crossword Answers April 15, 2025

Across
1 Say whether you’ll go
📩 Common on invitations.
🎉 Means you’re attending — or not.
🗓️ Comes from a French phrase.

5 Fitting game for Chip, Jack and Betty to play?
🃏 Card-based pun.
♠️ Popular at casinos.
💰 Involves betting and bluffing.

6 ___ acid
🧬 Related to proteins.
⚗️ Often paired with “nucleic.”
🔬 Building block of life.

7 Beginning of a joke
😄 Comes before the punchline.
🎭 Part of comic timing.
🗣️ Often starts with “So…”

8 Mix, as a salad
🥗 Toss it with dressing.
🥄 What you do with greens.
🍴 Combine ingredients gently.

Down
1 Doomed Shakespearean lover
💔 From Verona.
🎭 Star-crossed teenager.
🔪 Dies for love.

2 Short comedic performances
😂 Often seen on SNL.
🎬 Bite-sized humor bits.
🎭 Performed in quick succession.

3 Planet shrouded in toxic clouds that smell like rotten eggs
🌍 Earth’s twin in size.
🌫️ Sulfurous atmosphere.
🪐 Second from the Sun.

4 Support, with “up”
🪑 Keep something standing.
🏗️ Give structural help.
🙌 Often used for morale too.

5 “I’m never going back, the ___ is in the ___” (lyric from “Let It Go”)
🎵 Iconic Frozen line.
❄️ Rhymes with “blast.”
🕰️ Refers to time gone by.