About these answers
Mini #325'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 WHOOP (5-Across) and BOOKS (1-Down), at five letters; the shortest are BUY (1-Across), IRS (7-Across), YUP (3-Down) and WWI (5-Down).
The grid uses thirteen different letters. The most common is O, in four squares, and 7 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
- 3-Down, “Yeah, sure”: the answer is YUP.
- 7-Across, “Tax-collecting U.S. agency, in brief”: the short form is IRS.
- 2-Down, “Things some claim to spot in the sky, briefly”: the short form is UFOS.
- 5-Down, “Conflict of 1914-1918, in brief”: the short form is WWI.
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