NYT Mini Crossword Answers and Hints for November 4, 2025

Need help with the Tuesday, November 4, 2025 NYT Mini? Start with the clue list below and reveal only the answers you need. Spoilers follow: the full answer key is at the end.

November 4 Mini clues

Use these clues to check you have the right puzzle before revealing an answer. The guide lists five Across clues and five Down clues.

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Across

1. Quickly fall asleep after a long day
2. 1/16 of a pound
3. Where chess, shampoo and the number zero were invented
4. Uproar
5. Used up, as energy or money

Down

1. Hairstyles
2. Build-up, as to a big event
3. Agassi who won eight Grand Slam singles titles
4. Heir to a fortune
5. Emotional center

Hints before the answers

• 1-Across: A casual verb that can mean to fall asleep quickly.
• 6-Across: A unit of weight; the answer has five letters.
• 7-Across: The country associated with the origins of chess, shampoo and zero in the clue.
• 8-Across: A short word for commotion.
• 9-Across: The past-tense form of “spend.”
• 1-Down: A word for carefully arranged hairstyles.
• 2-Down: A word for the period of preparation leading up to an event.
• 3-Down: The first name of tennis player Andre Agassi.
• 4-Down: A descendant who may inherit a family fortune.
• 5-Down: A word for the center of feeling or emotion.

Full answer key

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Across answers

1. CRASH
2. OUNCE
3. INDIA
4. ADO
5. SPENT

Down answers

1. COIFS
2. RUNUP
3. ANDRE
4. SCION
5. HEART

Source and answer confirmation

The dated clue guide and linked clue-answer pages report this answer set. The available linked pages do not show an explicit dated answer statement for 8-Across ADO or 3-Down ANDRE, so those two entries are less directly confirmed by the cited pages than the others.

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