NYT Mini Crossword - August 22, 2025

1. Places to store shovels and leaf blowers

5. Coating for Babybel cheese

6. "___ vs. Predator" (2004 sci-fi film)

8. Streaming glitch

9. Docking spots

10. Feature of a Southern accent

14. Sweet potato lookalike

15. Top-notch, informally

17. Greenskeeper's roll of grass

18. Campfire remnants

1. Nickname for the Florida Gators football stadium, with "the"

2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" villain

3. Cast out from a country

4. "Uptown Funk" and "Downtown," for two

7. "Can I bend your ___ for a second?"

10. Like an ambitious, competitive personality

11. Simple-to-play card game for two

12. Simple-living sect

13. Shop owner's stock

16. Barkeep on "The Simpsons"