Most people deserve to be happy to make life more enjoyable. "Making extremely happy" can be achieved in a number of ways, but today's NYT Mini Crossword has one specific answer to this riddle: it's less of a method and more of a description.
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“ELATE” is the answer to today’s “Make Extremely Happy” prompt for six in the NYT Mini.
To make someone happy is to delight them, but it's not often said this way. Besides having three vowels and starting with an "r", Elate rhymes with deflate, and if you add "r" to relate, you get "relate".