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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Sept. 23

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for Wordle, The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

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.

Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a nice easy one today. Read on for all the answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: “Sorry about that!”
Answer: OOPS

5A clue: Not-so-tacky clothing material that rhymes with “tacky”
Answer: KHAKI

7A clue: Paula who judged on “American Idol”
Answer: ABDUL

8A clue: “___ never believe this …”
Answer: YOULL

9A clue: Long-haired Himalayan animals
Answer: YAKS

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Just fine
Answer: OKAY

2D clue: “Well, this oughta be good!”
Answer: OHBOY

3D clue: Italian city...

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Sources: China's SASAC, which oversees state-owned companies, is surveying the number of Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers amid a domestic AI drive

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Check Point Patches Exploited Management Server Zero-Day

Check Point on Tuesday announced urgent patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in Management Server that has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Tracked as CVE-2026-93616 (CVSS score of 9.8), the security defect is described as a directory traversal and file upload issue that could allow unauthenticated attackers

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The EU will force data centers to disclose how much water and energy they are using

* Data centers will get a label, just like your fridge or dishwasher * Energy and water consumption must be reported by 500kW+ sites * The EC also wants to know how resources are being balanced in relation to local strains The European Commission has proposed a new rating scheme for data centers

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Demoverse Raises $600K Pre-Seed Funding Led by Lumikai

Demoverse, the AI-powered co-creation platform has now raised $600,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Lumikai. The venture capital firm invested $500,000 through Pixels, its pre-seed program. UAE-based investor-operator Marlan and a group of angel investors also participated in the round. The funding will go toward converting