NYT Mini Crossword Answers May 25, 2025

Across
1 Good for a bike route, bad for a bike tire (Answer: FLAT)
🚲 4 letters, starts with F, ends with T
🛞 Bicycle mishap
📉 Deflated condition
🛌 Apartment type
🚫 No incline
🛣️ Level surface
🔩 Lacking air
🏕️ Camping surface
🔇 Dull, like a joke
🧊 Without bubbles
🗺️ Even terrain

5 Rolling in it (Answer: RICH)
💰 4 letters, starts with R, ends with H
👑 Wealthy
🏦 Got bank
🛍️ Moneyed
🥂 Upper class
🤑 Not poor
🎩 Well-off
📈 Financially flush
💸 Deep pockets
💼 Executive type
🏠 Mansion dweller

6 Internet company with a purple logo (Answer: YAHOO)
🌐 5 letters, starts with Y, ends with O
📬 Early email giant
🟣 Purple search brand
💻 90s internet staple
📈 Stock ticker: YHOO
🗞️ News aggregator
📣 “Do you ___?”
🧠 Trivia host
🖱️ Original homepage
📧 Free mail provider
🔊 Exuberant name

8 McIlroy who won the 2025 Masters (Answer: RORRY)
⛳ 5 letters, starts with R, ends with Y
🏌️‍♂️ Golf champ
🇬🇧 Northern Irish athlete
🏆 Green jacket winner
🎯 Masters victor
📺 ESPN highlight
📅 2025 sports star
🌍 Global golf name
📣 “Rory with a Y”
📰 Leaderboard topper
👟 Nike’s golfer

9 Mumford & ___ (rock band) (Answer: SONS)
🎸 4 letters, starts with S, ends with S
🎶 Folk-rock finish
👨‍👦‍👦 Musical kin
🪕 Band relatives
📻 Grammy winners
🎤 British harmony
🎼 Marcus leads
🎧 Banjo blend
📀 Debut: “Sigh No More”
🎵 Indie chart-toppers
📅 2010s headliners

Down
1 Food item dipped in ketchup (Answer: FRY)
🍟 3 letters, starts with F, ends with Y
🥔 Crispy strip
🧂 Fast food side
🍔 Burger buddy
🛢️ Deep-fried
🧊 Not baked
🧃 Dipped in red
🧑‍🍳 Served in baskets
🌡️ Hot and crunchy
🧼 Never soggy
🧇 Curly or straight

2 Apt rhyme of “falsifiers” (Answer: LIARS)
🤥 5 letters, starts with L, ends with S
📜 Untruth tellers
🧠 Misleaders
🗣️ Truth benders
👥 Fabricators
😈 Nose-growers
🎭 Deceivers
🧾 Not honest
🎯 Rhymes with “buyers”
⚖️ Courtroom villains
📉 Trust breakers

3 Sneezing sound (Answer: ACHOO)
🤧 5 letters, starts with A, ends with O
🌸 Allergy outburst
🧼 Germy noise
📣 Loud expulsion
👃 Nasal reflex
💨 Air blast
🦠 Flu symptom
🎭 Comic sneeze
📚 Onomatopoeia
💥 Sudden sound
🗣️ Gesundheit!

4 Plant’s defense against herbivores, perhaps (Answer: THORN)
🌵 5 letters, starts with T, ends with N
🛡️ Nature’s spike
🌹 Rose weapon
🦔 Sharp defense
🌿 Painful point
🪴 Stem hazard
👆 Ouchy prickle
🕊️ Not to be plucked
👀 Found on cactus
🎯 Deterrent
🔪 Tiny spear

7 Yiddish exclamations of woe (Answer: OYS)
😩 3 letters, starts with O, ends with S
🗣️ Oy gevalt!
🕍 Kvetch starter
🎭 Dramatic groan
🧼 Expresses tsuris
🧓 Bubbe’s sigh
📣 Minor kvetch
🫥 “Not again!”
🥴 Oy vey
🕯️ Cultural cry
👎 Disappointed sound