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ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues and Answers for Thursday, October 10By means of Erik Cain

TGIF! The weekend is almost here and so is my weekly assignment for these mini crossword guides. This will be my last mini crossword guide until two weeks from Saturday when I take the baton back. It’s looking like another lovely fall weekend, so I hope to enjoy that extra time to walk and do some housework and gardening. Fun times! Let’s solve this crossword for now!

Spoilers ahead, of course. Continue for the image of today’s solved puzzle.

ABOUT

1 — Flower presented on ‘The Bachelorette’ — ROSE

5 — Insurgent takeovers — coups d’état

6 — Give in (to) — OWNUP

7 — Public condemnation — REJECTION

8 — The paradise referenced in “Paradise Lost” – EDEN

DOWN

1 – Went to the oars – ROD

2 – “A prevention is worth a pound of cure” (proverb) – OUNCE

3 – Reject, as a lover – REJECT

4 — Get a glimpse of — ESPY

5 — Something that worries a construction developer. . . or a software developer – CODE

I don’t think my head was in the right place when I started this mini crossword, which explains why it took me 3:01 to complete it. Ouch. I just wasn’t putting two and two together, distracted by life and all that jazz. I started with the correct 1-Across – ROSE – despite knowing absolutely nothing about “The Bachelorette” and that helped. But others, like COUPS, have rejected me because of the plural. Sometimes my brain doesn’t immediately go to the plural. In any case, difficult enough for a Friday evening! How did you do it? Let me know TweetInstagram or Facebook.

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