Mini Crossword Today: Answers for Oct. 31 - CNET

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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Happy Halloween! There’s a fun, timely theme to today’s puzzle. It took me a little while to figure out that for certain answers, the editors wanted you to combine parts of two different candy names to make a regular word. Now you know! Read on for all the answers.

The Mini Crossword is a nice break from the tougher puzzles, and it takes only a fraction of the time of the vaunted, regular New York Times Crossword puzzle.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Candy holder for a trick-or-treater
Answer: BAG

4A clue: Org. interested in Mars and the Milky Way
Answer: NASA

5A clue: Half Starburst, half Skittle?
Answer: STARTLE

8A clue: Golfer’s goal
Answer: PAR

9A clue: Iconic Australian animal, for short
Answer: ROO

10A clue: Half Airhead, half candy corn?
Answer: AIRHORN

12A clue: Half Mounds, half Reese’s?
Answer:...

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