Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, June 13

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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 13.

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CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Let's get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Sentry's "Stop!"

Answer: HALT

5A clue: ___ vera (succulent)

Answer: ALOE

6A clue: "That feeling should fade"

Answer: ITLLPASS

10A clue: $1,000,000, informally

Answer: MIL

11A clue: One of the Three Stooges

Answer: MOE

12A clue: Caller of balls and strikes

Answer: UMP

13A clue: ___-1 (class of drugs that includes Ozempic and Wegovy)

Answer: GLP

14A clue: Crunchy tendril used in Asian cuisine

Answer: PEASHOOT

17A clue: ___ Stadium, former home of the Mets

Answer: SHEA

18A clue: Silverstein who wrote "The Giving Tree"

Answer: SHEL

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Student's slip

Answer: HALLPASS

2D clue: The "A" of GOAT

Answer: ALL

3D clue: Chop (off)

Answer: LOP

4D clue: Collective objective ... or what the ends of 1-Down, 6-Across and 14-Across lead to

Answer: TEAMGOAL

6D clue: "Okay, it's my turn"

Answer: IMUP

7D clue: The "T" of GOAT

Answer: TIME

8D clue: All by oneself

Answer: SOLO

9D clue: Month #9: Abbr.

Answer: SEPT

15D clue: Librarian's warning

Answer: SHH

16D clue: Tee-___ (giggle)

Answer: HEE

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GAEL COOPER

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line. See full bio