Sunday, October 4, 2026 · by Sam Ezersky
This Mini by Sam Ezersky is a 6×5 grid with 11 clues and 4 black squares.
Across clues and answers
- 1Wine barrel
- CASK
- 5Leader of the Pussycats, in comics and film
- JOSIE
- 6In a nutshell
- SIMPLY
- 72026 N.B.A. champions
- KNICKS
- 8Denial that sounds like 7-Across in Pig Latin
- IXNAY
Down clues and answers
- 1"Santa Claus Is ___ to Town" (holiday hit)
- COMIN
- 2Pet adoption org.
- ASPCA
- 3Like the texture of fine bedsheets
- SILKY
- 4Bad things to leave locked in your house
- KEYS
- 5"We said the same thing at the same time!"
- JINX
- 6Hit the slopes
- SKI
If an Across clue stalls, read the Down clue through its first square.