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If you know your skirt lengths, you’ll do OK on the  NYT Mini Crossword today. Helps to know a French painter, an NBA team and a famous Christmas movie too. Need some more help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

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Let’s get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Facebook’s parent company
Answer: META

5A clue: Full-length skirts … and a morning hour read backward
Answer: MAXIS

6A clue: Written with pen
Answer: ININK

7A clue: N.B.A. team that nearly renamed itself the Swamp Dragons in the 1990s
Answer: NETS

8A clue: “___ a Wonderful Life”
Answer: ITS

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: French modernist painter … and a morning hour read backward
Answer: MANET

2D clue: What lighted signs mark in theaters
Answer: EXITS

3D clue: Altoids containers
Answer: TINS

4D clue: Pose a question
Answer: ASK

5D clue: Short skirt
Answer: MINI

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