‘2024 Beyonce album’ NYT Mini Crossword Aug. 3 answer and hints

Who doesn’t like Beyoncé? If you’re constantly jamming to her songs, it shouldn’t take you long to guess the answer to the Aug. 3 NYT Mini Crossword’s clue “’2024 album in which Beyoncé is “reinventing American music in her own image,’ per Rolling Stone.” 

However, if you’re like me and don’t dabble in memorizing the names of musical albums, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered to solve the Mini Crossword.

‘2024 Beyonce album’ NYT Mini Crossword hints and answer

• Hint 1: The six-letter word is a popularized Wild West cultural phenomenon seen in vintage Hollywood films such as “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”
• Hint 2: The synonym for the “cattleman.”
• Hint 3: The anagram for the word is “Bowcoy.”
• Hint 4: Both the words across and down for the album start with “C.”

DON’T READ PAST THIS POINT UNLESS YOU WANT THE ANSWER. IF YOU’VE MADE UP YOUR MIND, HERE YOU GO.

“COWBOY” is the answer to one across, and if you wish to complete the entire album by solving the one down, that’s “CARTER,” which makes the complete Beyoncé album name Cowboy Carter. Looking at Rolling Stone’s album review of Cowboy Carter, they mentioned it was “reinventing American music in her own image” in the headline. 

The album was released in March of this year, and it broke multiple records worldwide while surpassing her previous album, Renaissance,  in the trilogy as Beyoncé’s biggest album debut on Spotify.

NYT Mini Crossword (Aug. 3) answers

Across 

• 1A With 1-Down, 2024 album in which Beyoncé is “reinventing American music in her own image,” per Rolling Stone — COWBOY
• 7A Sewer entrance — MANHOLE
• 8A Brand that coined color names like Purple Pizzazz and Jazzberry Jam — CRAYOLA
• 9A Lawyer: Abbr. — ATT
• 10A Baby fox or skunk — KIT
• 11A Dwellings made from animal hides — TEEPEES
• 13A Pours down — RAINS
• 14A Size between small and large: Abbr.— MED

Down

• 1D See 1-Across — CARTER
• 2D Like gymnasts and relay racers, at the Olympics — ONATEAM
• 3D “How come?” — WHY
• 4D One of a pair on a shelf — BOOKEND
• 5D Simple skateboard tricks — OLLIES
• 6D Poet William Butler — YEATS
• 7D Exam for a future doc — MCAT
• 12D Eight slices of pizza, typically — PIE

‘2024 Beyonce album’ NYT Mini Crossword difficulty rating

Beyonce is undoubtedly one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and if you’re one of those million fans who follow her songs religiously, the album shouldn’t have surprised you.

However, if you don’t listen to pop music and barely keep up with the industry, the new album might’ve caught you off-guard, so the difficulty rating for the “2024 album in which Beyoncé is “reinventing American music in her own image,” per Rolling Stone” clue is three out of five. 

How to play other word games like the NYT Mini Crossword

If you thought the mini Crossword in NYT was pretty simple, you could try your masterful Crossword skills next in the LA Times and the Washington Post. However, if you’re done with solving Crosswords, you can try something different with NYT’s Strands and Spelling Bee to further enhance your vocabulary.