If your morning routine entails picking up the newspaper and making your way to the comics section, then the Aug. 10 NYT Mini Crossword’s clue “Longtime comic strip with anthropomorphic animals, with ‘The’” will hit you in the nostalgia spot.

However, if you’re like me and you don’t dabble much in the comic strip’s names and their characters, then chances are you need some more hints to solve the puzzle. In that case, don’t worry and you can use our hints to guess the answer.