NYT Mini Crossword Answers May 1, 2025

Across
1 Question that looks like today’s date (Answer: MAYI)
📅 4 letters, starts with M, ends with I
❓ Polite way to ask
🙋 Often followed by “help you?”
🎩 Formal request intro
🧾 Sounds like a month
🎓 Used by students in class
🗣️ Opening phrase in English
🛂 Can begin a question
📆 Matches 5/1 phonetically
✋ Expression of permission

5 Marvel’s “The Avengers,” e.g. (Answer: COMIC)
📚 5 letters, starts with C, ends with C
🦸 Source of superhero stories
🎨 Illustrated narrative
📰 Graphic medium
🧠 Popular at conventions
🖍️ Panels and speech bubbles
📖 Read by fans
🎥 Basis for movies
👶 Loved by kids and adults
🛒 Sold at specialty shops

6 Bring to mind (Answer: EVOKE)
🧠 5 letters, starts with E, ends with E
💭 Trigger a memory
🎶 A song might do this
👃 A smell might cause it
🖼️ Related to emotions
📸 Mental image recall
📚 Often used in poetry
🗣️ Can be done through words
🪔 Stir a feeling
📖 Literary technique

7 Like notebook paper (Answer: LINED)
📓 5 letters, starts with L, ends with D
📏 Has horizontal marks
✍️ Good for writing neatly
🖊️ Used in schools
📘 Common in journals
🧾 Helps guide handwriting
📚 Academic supply
📒 Not blank or dotted
🖋️ Writers prefer it
💼 Found in offices

8 An Australian millipede holds the record for the most in the animal kingdom, at 1,306 (Answer: LEGS)
🐛 4 letters, starts with L, ends with S
🐜 Used for crawling
🚶 Millipede feature
🦿 Plural of a limb
🕷️ Insects have six
🧟 What zombies drag
🏃 Enable movement
👖 Pants cover them
🧠 Often counted in trivia
🛑 Can be many or few

Down
1 Marvel’s “The Avengers,” e.g. (Answer: MOVIE)
🎥 5 letters, starts with M, ends with E
📽️ Seen in theaters
🦸 Based on comics
🍿 Includes scenes and scripts
📺 Watched on Netflix
🎬 Directed by filmmakers
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Stars actors
📝 Has a plot
🕹️ Sometimes adapted to games
🎭 Form of entertainment

2 Surrounded by (Answer: AMONG)
🌍 5 letters, starts with A, ends with G
👥 In the midst of
👪 In a group
📍 Between several
🗣️ Often used with people
🐑 Hidden in the flock
🎭 Used in storytelling
🧱 Enclosed within
🏞️ Within a setting
📚 Preposition in grammar

3 “That is not good!” (Answer: YIKES)
😬 5 letters, starts with Y, ends with S
😱 Expression of shock
😧 A reaction word
📢 Often said aloud
💬 Used in chat
😨 Indicates worry
😬 Rhymes with “bikes”
🧠 Sign of anxiety
😖 Often follows bad news
📉 Panic reaction

4 Like some coffee orders (Answer: ICED)
🧊 5 letters, starts with I, ends with D
🥶 Chilled beverage
☕ Opposite of hot
🍹 Cold caffeine fix
🧋 Common in summer
🧊 Requires cubes
🍸 Found in lattes and teas
🧯 Cool refreshment
🚫 Not served warm
🏪 Sold in bottles too

5 Where to find ribosomes and mitochondria (Answer: CELL)
🧬 4 letters, starts with C, ends with L
🧪 Unit of life
🔬 Microscopic building block
🧠 Found in all organisms
⚛️ Contains organelles
🔋 Powerhouse location
🧫 Studied in biology
🌿 Found in plants too
👤 Basis of tissue
📖 In textbooks