The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

Fans of the sitcom Happy Days may recall that there were three Cunningham siblings in the first two seasons of the show. Richie (Ron Howard) and Joanie (Erin Moran) had a basketball-dribbling big brother named Chuck (Gavan O’Herlihy), but early in Season 2 in 1975, all traces of Chuck disappeared ...