Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Nov. 5

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Completed NYT November 5, 2025 Mini Crossword.

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Mini-tips and answers

1. Hint: Possibly a fresh addition to the pasta sauce.
Answer: VASILIK

6Hint: Magazine ___ (water park ride)
Answer: FLUM

7Hint: a group of ships.
Answer: FLEET

8. Hint: drinks from “streams”.
Answer: SODA

Hint 9. Documentary writer Burns.
Answer: KEN

Mini-tips and answers

Hint 1D: Closest friends, in short.
Answer: Best friends

2D hint: “No problem here!”
Answer: ALLOK

3D clue: shoe material in Elvis' hit
Answer: SUEDE

4D hint: “That is…”
Answer: IMEAN

5D hint: tennis victories
Answer: LET'S

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