NYT Mini Crossword Answers and Hints for Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026: A Six-Wide Grid

The New York Times (NYT) Mini Crossword for Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, has 11 clues on a grid six squares wide and five tall, built by Christina Iverson. The saved puzzle data gives that size, so this is not the five-by-five layout our Nov. 3 page described. Each clue below has a hint hidden until you open it, and the full answers wait in a marked spoiler section.

Hints for every clue

Across

• 1-Across (6 letters), One of 21 around the island of Manhattan – most famously, the Brooklyn one

  a span that carries traffic over water, with the clue pointing at the Brooklyn example; it starts with B and ends with E.

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  Bridge
• 7-Across (6 letters), Tony-winning play that reimagines Abraham Lincoln’s wife as an aspiring cabaret star

  a two-letter exclamation followed by the first name of Lincoln’s wife, all run together; it starts with O and ends with Y.

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  Ohmary
• 8-Across (6 letters), Hot dog, informally

  a slang name for a frankfurter, with two Is and two Es; it starts with W.

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  Wienie
• 9-Across (5 letters), Put into law

  what a legislature does to a bill that passes; it starts with E.

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  Enact
• 10-Across (4 letters), Not a single one

  zero, said as a word that means not one; it starts with N and ends with E.

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  None

Down

• 1-Down (5 letters), Yang who once played the iceberg that sank the Titanic on “S.N.L.”

  the comedian’s first name, which the clue leaves out; it starts with B and ends with N.

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  Bowen
• 2-Down (5 letters), Big zoo animal

  a thick-skinned animal with a horn on its snout, seen at a zoo; it starts with R.

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  Rhino
• 3-Down (5 letters), “Sorry, let me rephrase …”

  a spoken filler phrase of two short words run together, used before restating a point; it starts with I and ends with N.

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  Imean
• 4-Down (5 letters), Class where you might wear a leotard

  ballet or tap, for example; it starts with D and ends with E.

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  Dance
• 5-Down (4 letters), Courage and perseverance

  a short word for toughness that keeps a person going; it starts with G.

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  Grit
• 6-Down (3 letters), “Keep your ___ on the ball!”

  the body part you use to watch a ball; it starts with E.

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  Eye

The loosest clue on Wednesday’s Mini

Of the 11 clues, only one ends in an ellipsis: 3-Down, “Sorry, let me rephrase …” Nothing in it points to an object or a place. It asks for something a speaker says out loud, so no dictionary entry will match it the way a plain word clue would. A way in is to say the clue in your own voice and see which short phrase would follow.

This helps with the crossings. The answer runs the full five rows, so every one of the 5 Across entries crosses it: 1-Across, 7-Across, 8-Across, 9-Across, 10-Across. Fill any two of those rows and you can test your phrase against them before writing it in.

How the grid is built

The grid is 6 by 5, which is 30 squares, 3 of them black and 27 holding letters. The black squares are the last square of row 4 and the last two squares of row 5, so the lower-right corner is the only part cut away. The Across entries run 6, 6, 6, 5, 4 letters from top to bottom, and the Down entries run 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3 from left to right. The longest entries are 3 Across answers of six letters (1-Across, 7-Across, 8-Across); no Down answer is longer than five.

How a Mini works is on our Mini Crossword page.

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More of Wednesday’s puzzles: Wordle hints, Connections hints, Strands hints, Spelling Bee hints and Pips hints. The larger sibling for the same date is our Midi answers for Nov. 4. Tuesday’s grid is in our Mini answers for Nov. 3.

Today’s NYT Mini answers (spoilers)

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Clue	Answer
1-Across	Bridge
7-Across	Ohmary
8-Across	Wienie
9-Across	Enact
10-Across	None
1-Down	Bowen
2-Down	Rhino
3-Down	Imean
4-Down	Dance
5-Down	Grit
6-Down	Eye

The answers come from the puzzle’s official data.

Yesterday's Mini Crossword answer

The Mini on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026: Across 1 Claim, 6 Limbo, 7 Avail, 8 Pizza, 9 Dear; Down 1 Clap, 2 Livid, 3 Amaze, 4 Ibiza, 5 Molar. Yesterday's hints and full solution.