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The NYT Mini Crossword puzzle completed for March 21, 2026.
NYT/Screenshot by CNETMini through clues and answers
1A clue: Spring cleaning box 1: I still love it!
Answer: KEEP
5A clue: First name of the poet Poe
Answer: EDGAR
7A Hint: Let ___ Be ___
Answer: BYGONES
9A clue: Gorilla or chimpanzee
Solution: EPA
10A clue: clock setting in the United Kingdom: Abbr.
Answer: GMT
11A Clue: Eugene Levy, to Dan Levy
Answer: DAD
12A index: ___ G BIV (color mnemonic)
Solution: ROYA
13A clue: Spring cleaning box 2: someone else will love it!
Answer: MAKE A DONATION
15A hint: “If you don’t like it, that’s your problem!”
Solution: SUEME
16A clue: Spring Cleaning Box 3: It’s worthless!
Solution: TOSSER
Mini-clues and answers
Index 1D: button panels on which access codes are entered
Solution: KEYBOARDS
2D Clue: Barely Defeated
Solution: EDGEOUT
3D Clue: A Narcissist Has a Big One
Answer: EGO
4D Clue: High Score Words in Spelling Bee
Solution: PANGRAM
Clue 6D: channel changers
Solution: REMOTE CONTROL
Clue 7D: ___ Bunny, musician known as “King of Latin Trap”
Answer: BAD
Clue 8D: Painful eye disease
Solution: STYE
Index 14D: prefix for a modern gender
Answer: NEO
