The NY Times Mini Crossword March 21, 2026 puzzle by Christina Iverson is solved below. The answers were grouped based on their orientation on the grid.
Across
- 1 Spring Cleaning Box 1: I still love it! KEEP
- 5 First name of poet Poe EDGAR
- 7 Let ___ be ___ BYGONES
- 9 Gorilla or chimpanzee APE
- 10 Clock setting in the U.K.: Abbr. GMT
- 11 Eugene Levy, to Dan Levy DAD
- 12 ___ G BIV (color mnemonic) ROY
- 13 Spring Cleaning Box 2: Someone else will love it! DONATE
- 15 “If you don’t like it, that’s your problem!” SUEME
- 16 Spring Cleaning Box 3: It’s worthless! TOSS
Down
- 1 Panels of buttons on which passcodes are entered KEYPADS
- 2 Just barely defeated EDGEDOUT
- 3 A narcissist has a big one EGO
- 4 High-scoring words in Spelling Bee PANGRAMS
- 6 Channel changers REMOTES
- 7 ___ Bunny, musician known as the “King of Latin Trap” BAD
- 8 Painful eye malady STYE
- 14 Prefix for a modern genre NEO
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