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.
Across
- Quickly fall asleep after a long day
- 1/16 of a pound
- Where chess, shampoo and the number zero were invented
- Uproar
- Used up, as energy or money
Down
- Hairstyles
- Build-up, as to a big event
- Agassi who won eight Grand Slam singles titles
- Heir to a fortune
- 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
Stop here if you want to solve the puzzle yourself. Answers are grouped by direction.
Across answers
- CRASH
- OUNCE
- INDIA
- ADO
- SPENT
Down answers
- COIFS
- RUNUP
- ANDRE
- SCION
- 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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