About these answers
Mini #295's ten answers fill 19 white squares, and every one of them is crossed, so each letter belongs to one Across and one Down answer. The longest answers are PANDA (5-Across) and HONOR (1-Down), at five letters; the shortest are HIT (1-Across), AIR (7-Across), TEA (3-Down) and PSA (5-Down).
The grid uses fourteen different letters. The most common is A, in three squares, and 8 of the 19 squares hold a vowel (A, E, I, O or U). There’s no J, Q, X or Z in it.
The trickier clues, explained
- 4-Down, “Surrealist painter Salvador ___”: the blank is DALI, giving “Surrealist painter Salvador DALI”.
- 5-Down, “Public service announcement, for short”: the short form is PSA.
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