“Finely grate, as a lemon peel” is a great clue and gives the July 30 NYT Mini Crossword a lot of zing.

You need to eat your five a day to keep a lot of the bad away, and, thankfully, this doesn’t apply to lemons because if you’re of a disposition where so much as licking a lemon segment has your eyes curling up into a ball (like me), we’d be in trouble! But lemons are key to four down in today’s daily NYT Mini word game.