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Completed NYT October 29, 2025 Mini Crossword.
Mini-tips and answers
1. Tip: In short, the skills taught in lifeguard courses.
Answer: CPR
4Hint: Bop it!
Answer: HEAD
6. Hint: they don’t give you anything to eat.
Answer: Eleventh
8Hint: Turn it around! Pull!
Answer: TAFFY
9. Hint: the best of the best
Answer: ELITE
Mini-tips and answers
Hint 1D: How to deliver trash to the dumpster in the basement.
Answer: CHUT
2D clue: a word that can precede the words “code” or “colony”.
Answer: PENAL
3D hint: Musician “Baby Beluga”
Answer: RAFFI
5D tip: Carefully and skillfully
Answer: DEFT
Tip 7D: Change the color like hair
Answer: PAINT
