New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Saturday's Mini hides its most culturally loaded answer going straight down from the top-left corner.

Hint 1: One down answer is a surname that made political history in New York City in 2025 - the kind of clue that only works in a crossword published the year after the fact.

Hint 2: One across answer is what you text someone when you're about to arrive - two words run together into one grid entry.

Hint 3: One across answer names a category that includes two of the puzzle's other answers as examples of it.

The anchor of Saturday's grid is 1-Down: MAMDANI. Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race in November 2025, becoming the first Muslim mayor in the city's history and one of the youngest mayors of a ma...