These words are things you might taste during the holiday season. Words are commonly consumed, like eggnog, during the holidays. Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal. Today's spangram is HolidayFlavor.

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. 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.

It is time to start the day with the NYT Connections hints and answers for December 23, 2024. Yesterday’s puzzle was a little twisted but quite interesting as well. While the first and third clues were relatively easy,