Here are the answers to the NYT Mini Crossword for Wednesday, December 3, 2025. The year matters: this key is for the 2025 puzzle, not another edition dated December 3.
Across answers
- 1A: SHOW — “___, don’t tell”
- 5A: LUCAS — Creator of Indiana Jones and Han Solo
- 7A: ARENT — What “ain’t” can substitute for
- 8A: PLANE — Icon on a flight map
- 9A: SNAP — Federal food stamps initiative, familiarly
Down answers
- 1D: SLAP — Action in the card game Egyptian Ratscrew
- 2D: HURLS — Throws forcefully
- 3D: OCEAN — Where 97% of the Earth’s water is found
- 4D: WANNA — “You down?”
- 6D: STEP — Neil Armstrong took a “small” one
How to play or find the archived puzzle
The Mini is a compact crossword: fill the white squares by solving Across and Down clues, using their crossings to check possible answers. The NYT Help Center’s Mini guide describes in-game options to check or reveal a square, an answer, or the full puzzle.
To play a past Mini in the official archive, NYT support says Games and All Access subscribers can access archived puzzles. The archive instructions explain how to select a month and year and switch to the Mini archive: see the Crossword Archive help page and NYT crossword help.
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