Black Rectangle on Sheet Music NYT Crossword

Crossword puzzles are great fun. You can do them over your morning coffee, while commuting to work, or when you have a bit of free time to spare. The New York Times Crossword is probably the most popular one of its kind in the world. As such, it’s no wonder that there is also a NYT app called The Mini Crossword. It takes all the fun of the regular NYT Crossword and puts it in an accessbile mobile package to play while on the go. Though, sometimes it, too, can be hard to solve. Take today’s NYT Crossword Mini clue, which is “Black Rectangle on Sheet Music”. If you are having trouble with it, here’s how you can solve this puzzle.

Black Rectangle on Sheet Music NYT Mini Crossword Answer

This is one of the several clues for the Mini Crossword on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023. Specifically, number 6 on down. The full clue is “Black Rectangle on Sheet Music”. Which, admittedly, doesn’t give us too much to go on. So let’s first analyze the intended meaning here. The phrase itself obviously refers to music theory, with sheet music being the notes that musicians play, and the black rectangle is some sort of symbol commonly used to depict things such as tempo changes, and so on. Of course, all of this means little if you are not too familiar with sheet music and music theory on the whole.

So let’s see the solution for today’s NYT Mini Crossword. The solution is: REST. This is because this symbol means that there is no sound (or in this case – music) for two beats. Specifically, it means that the musician playing the sheet music is not to play any notes for a while (as long as the symbol appears). So there you have it, you can now complete today’s NYT Mini Crossword.