New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- All 10 NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, August 10, 2026 are below, across and down, with clue notes for today's trickiest entries.

NYT Mini Crossword Across Answers - August 10, 2026

1-Across: TAP - "___ to pay" (modern prompt). Contactless payment screens now read "Tap to pay" as the default instruction for card and phone payments.

4-Across: HOWTO - "Helpful book genre." How-to books cover practical instruction across cooking, home repair, finance, and nearly every other subject on the shelf.

6-Across: ONION - "Source of the headline 'Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent on Land,' with 'The.'" The Onion is the long-running American satirical publication known for deadpan fake headlines that read as plausibly...