Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a long one, as Saturday’s puzzles always are, but it’s not too tough. Read on for all the answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Its state quarter features a grizzly bear catching a salmon
Answer: ALASKA

 7A clue: Run-of-the-mill
Answer: COMMON

8A clue: Needing a friend
Answer: LONELY

9A clue: Grazing animal in the Rockies
Answer: ELK

10A clue: Freestanding counter at the center of a kitchen
Answer: ISLAND

13A clue: Eating plan participant
Answer: DIETER

14A clue: Class with colored belts
Answer: KARATE

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Knee injury site, for short
Answer: ACL

2D clue: Brit’s bathroom
Answer: LOO

3D clue: Memory loss issue
Answer: AMNESIA

4D clue: Nose, by function
Answer: SMELLER

5D clue: Major Indian city that’s the capital of West Bengal
Answer: KOLKATA

6D clue: “___ given Sunday!” (football fan’s maxim)
Answer: ANY

10D clue: Texting equivalent of a shrug
Answer: IDK

11D clue: After taxes
Answer: NET

12D clue: “Dr.” who co-founded Death Row Records
Answer: DRE

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.

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