NYT Mini Crossword - August 19, 2025

1. Animal that falls in love with a tape dispenser, in a classic New Yorker cartoon

6. Language written in Devanagari script

7. Singer Presley or Costello

8. George ___, "Middlemarch" author

9. Things "read" by fortune tellers

1. Blind followers

2. ___ wafers (Nabisco treat)

3. Heavy item falling from the sky in some classic cartoons

4. "In a pickle" or "in a jam"

5. They might end with "etc."