Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues and Solutions for Wednesday December 4th

If you missed Tuesday’s NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:

ForbesToday’s NYT Mini Crossword Clues and Solutions for Tuesday December 3rdFrom Paul Tassi

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper’s larger and long-running crossword puzzle. Most days there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five-by-five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

In contrast to its bigger brother, the NYT Mini Crosswords are free to play on the New York Times website or the NYT Games app. However, you will need a NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives.

The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I’m trying to beat the standard weekday grid in under a minute. But sometimes I can’t quite figure out a clue or two and have to give away the answer.

To help you avoid this, here is the NYT Mini Crossword puzzle solutions (Of course, there are spoilers ahead):

NYT Mini Crossword Clues and Solutions

ABOVE

1) Goal of the Clean Air Act – SMOG

5) It beats 6-down, but no scissors – PAPER

7) ___ Acids – AMINO

8) Overexcited – MANIC

9) Try to find – SEARCH

DOWN

1) Messages that may be automatically deleted after 30 days – SPAM

2) Some parents, to their little ones – MAMAS

3) Loud guess – OPINION

4) “Your wish is my command” speaker – GENIUS

6) It beats scissors, but not 5-Across – ROCK

If you ask me, it’s quite a speed run puzzle today. With “Paper and Stone” as the other two-thirds of the trio of games, you can start off easy, giving you access to many other words. After that, I found that spam and amino came to me pretty easily, as did smog and ghosts. From then on, it was just a matter of filling in the blanks for things like “moms” and “opinions.”

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