Halloween Puzzle Overview
Today's puzzle features a fun Halloween theme requiring solvers to combine parts of two different candy names to form regular words.
The Mini Crossword provides a quicker, lighter alternative to the standard New York Times crossword puzzle.
Across Clues
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: MOUSES
13A clue: Female sheep. Answer: EWE
Down Clues
1D clue: Candy ___. Answer: BAR
2D clue: Houston baseball team. Answer: ASTROS
3D clue: Aplenty. Answer: GALORE
4D clue: Opposite of wide. Answer: NARROW
5D clue: Health resort. Answer: SPA
6D clue: “Je ___” (French “I love you”). Answer: TAIME
7D clue: Many, many millennia. Answer: EONS
11D clue: Shade of a color. Answer: HUE
