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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, April 22

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 22

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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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The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for April 22, 2026.

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Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: It's clearly recyclable!
Answer: GLASS

6A clue: ___ Day (April 22nd observance)
Answer: EARTH

7A clue: Thick, underground part of a plant stem
Answer: TUBER

8A clue: Small cluster of trees
Answer: GROVE

9A clue: Rowed, as a boat
Answer: OARED

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: From the ___ (right at the beginning)
Answer: GETGO

2D clue: Author Ingalls Wilder who wrote "Little House on the Prairie"
Answer: LAURA

3D clue: ___ Day, observance on the last Friday of April
Answer: ARBOR

4D clue: Actor Buscemi
Answer: STEVE

5D clue: Rip into bits, as paper
Answer: SHRED

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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.