NYT Mini Crossword Answers May 23, 2025

Across
1 Chooses to receive marketing emails, with “in” (Answer: OPTS)
📩 4 letters, starts with O, ends with S
✅ Chooses to receive emails
🟢 Selects a subscription
👆 Hits “yes” on a popup
🗳️ Elects to join
📬 Joins a mailing list
📧 Agrees to updates
🔔 Turns notifications on
📝 Signs up
📲 Common web prompt
📈 Marketing consent action

5 Buck ___, first Black coach in Major League Baseball (1962) (Answer: ONEIL)
⚾ 5 letters, starts with O, ends with L
👤 Baseball pioneer
🏆 First Black MLB coach
📚 Historic baseball figure
🧢 Coach named Buck
📖 Name in sports history
💬 Last name of Buck
🗽 Barrier-breaking athlete
🎖️ Honored in baseball
🇺🇸 1962 MLB figure
🏟️ Hall of Fame honoree

6 Like your epidermis? (Answer: SKINNY)
👕 6 letters, starts with S, ends with Y
💪 Slender or lean
🧴 Thin, like epidermis
📉 Low in fat
👖 Tight-fit jeans style
👤 Barely there
🧍 Slim figure
🍃 Slight build
🏃 Lightweight
🪞 Lacking bulk
📏 Not thick

7 Like the element Fe? (Answer: IRONY)
🧲 5 letters, starts with I, ends with Y
🧪 Related to iron
😂 Unexpected twist
📚 Sarcastic tone
🥄 Metal pun
💬 Witty contradiction
🧠 Clever misdirection
🤖 Opposite meaning
🗣️ Dry humor style
📖 Literary device
⚖️ Fe-based humor

8 Quite a lot of (Answer: MANY)
🔢 4 letters, starts with M, ends with Y
🧮 Numerous
📊 Not a few
👥 Crowd-sized
💬 A great number
🫱 Several
🌍 Plenty
💡 A whole bunch
🧺 Full of
🏘️ More than some

Down
1 Bulb in the kitchen (Answer: ONION)
🧅 5 letters, starts with O, ends with N
👃 Strong-smelling bulb
🍽️ Chopped in recipes
💧 Can cause tears
🥘 Base for many dishes
🌰 Skin you peel
🍳 Sauté it
🧄 Garlic cousin
🧂 Savory staple
🪴 Common garden bulb

2 Like an ink-filled writing tool? (Answer: PENNY)
🖊️ 5 letters, starts with P, ends with Y
🧠 Wordplay on currency
✒️ Inky clue twist
🪙 Small copper coin
📬 Lincoln’s face
🔍 Double meaning
📜 Common cent
🧾 Change in your pocket
📉 Almost worthless
🧩 Writing pun

3 Microscopic (Answer: TINY)
🔬 4 letters, starts with T, ends with Y
🧵 Minuscule
🔍 Barely visible
🐜 Ant-sized
📏 Very small
🧸 Petite
🧠 Limited space
🎯 Compact
🍄 Teeny
🧬 Microscopic scale

4 Acting deviously (Answer: SLY)
🦊 3 letters, starts with S, ends with Y
🤫 Tricky behavior
🧠 Clever and sneaky
🐍 Foxlike
💬 Suggestive look
👀 Secretive
🎭 Shady tactic
🧥 Underhanded
🎲 Crafty
🐱‍👤 Cunning move

5 Green gumbo ingredient (Answer: OKRA)
🥣 4 letters, starts with O, ends with A
🌿 Southern veggie
🧅 Slippery when cooked
🍲 Thickens stews
🥘 Gumbo classic
🌱 Pod plant
🇺🇸 Southern staple
🍛 Used in Cajun food
🌿 Mucilaginous
🧄 Fried or stewed

6 ___ card (smartphone chip) (Answer: SIM)
📱 3 letters, starts with S, ends with M
🪪 Cell chip
📶 Phone identity
💾 Stores contact info
🛰️ Enables mobile network
📲 Slot in your phone
🔐 Subscriber ID
📞 Needed to text
📠 Cellular access
📧 Tiny phone tech