Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Sunday, June 8th

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In case you missed Saturday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:
It's not quite Sunday yet, but the New York Times releases its Sunday crossword puzzles on Saturday afternoon, so here we are. It's a bite-sized Mini Crossword we have to solve today, but not without its more challenging words. Let's take a crack at it, shall we?
The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, it's free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though you'll need the app to tackle the archive.
Spoilers ahead!
Across
1A. Org. with shooting stars — NBA
4A. Buildings with weather vanes, stereotypically — BARNS
6A. Swiss watch brand — OMEGA
7A. What Santa, Gandalf and Dumbledore each have — BEARD
8A. Pie in the ___ — SKY
Down
1D. "I'm bad with ___" (party excuse) — NAMES
2D. Start of a billiards game — BREAK
3D. Seeing red — ANGRY
4D. Timothée's role in "A Complete Unknown" — DYLAN
5D. Feeling blue — SAD
Here are all the words on the grid:
Today's Mini Crossword
I wasn't sure about 1-Across so I skipped ahead and knocked out a few more obvious ones like 5-Down (SAD) and 4-Down (BOB) and then filled in 2 and 3 DOWN and 8 Across, which basically left me with 1 Down and a couple letters missing from a couple Across words. Once I plugged these in, the puzzle was done. Easy peasy! This one took me 1:02.
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