If your morning routine entails picking up the newspaper and making your way to the comics section, then the Aug. 10 NYT Mini Crossword’s clue “Longtime comic strip with anthropomorphic animals, with ‘The’” will hit you in the nostalgia spot.
However, if you’re like me and you don’t dabble much in the comic strip’s names and their characters, then chances are you need some more hints to solve the puzzle. In that case, don’t worry and you can use our hints to guess the answer.
‘Comic strip with Anthropomorphic animals’ NYT Mini Crossword hints and answer
- Hint 1: The seven-letter comic was curated by an American cartoonist.
- Hint 2: The comic has been featured in multiple newspapers but the recent works can be found on the comic’s website.
- Hint 3: The synonym for the answer is an “extreme direction.”
- Hint 4: The solution starts with “F.”
STILL CAN’T GUESS IT? HERE IS THE ANSWER
“FARSIDE” is the answer to eight across. The comic strip The Far Side was started by American cartoonist Gary Larson in 1979. It dives into various nuances of awkward social situations and uses animals as replacements for human characters to portray or mock everyday situations or phrases to amuse its readers, hence the “anthropomorphic” animal part of the clue.
NYT Mini Crossword (Aug. 10) answers
Across
- 1A Berkeley school, for short— CAL
- 4A Erin Brockovich has one in the movie “Erin Brockovich” — CAMEO
- 6A “Whoops, I forgot about that” — OHRIGHT
- 8A Longtime comic strip with anthropomorphic animals, with “The” — FARSIDE
- 9A Disc for disc golf — FRISBEE
- 10A Narcissist’s problem — EGO
- 11A On the ___ (running away from capture) — LAM
- 12A Stimpy’s cartoon pal.— REN
- 13A- Stammering syllables — ERS
Down
- 1D Fare eaten by scavengers — CARRION
- 2D Not quite right — AMISS
- 3D Clear to read, as handwriting — LEGIBLE
- 4D Listing on a credit card statement — CHARGE
- 5D “My goodness!” — OHDEAR
- 6D Hoped-for outcome of a job interview — OFFER
- 7D Abounds (with) — TEEMS
‘Comic strip with Anthropomorphic animals’ NYT Mini Crossword difficulty rating
The difficulty rating for the ‘Comic strip with Anthropomorphic animals’ should be a four out of five, especially if you’re a young person like me who spends more time looking at memes than comics, let alone remembering their names. However, if you are older and enjoyed the Farside comics when they came out in the newspapers or recently on their website, then the answer should’ve taken you out on a nostalgia trip.
How to play other word games like the NYT Mini Crossword
If this NYT’s Mini Crossword clue puts you on a time machine, you can come back to the present and try other Crossword alternatives of LA Times and the Washington Post. But if you’re looking for something more on the fun side then you can have a shot at NYT’s Strands and Spelling Bee to know more words and use them every day.
