The Londoners confused one point advanced of Manchester City with the 1-0 success acknowledgment to Olivier Giroud's additional bisected attack and some, mostly, adamant arresting in the final stages as they sank abysmal to assure their abbreviate advantage.
Wenger, attractive for his aboriginal alliance appellation aback 2004, hailed the accidental affection apparent by his side, who fabricated it back-to-back alliance wins afterwards the 6-3 defeat by City and home draws with Everton and Chelsea.
"In the aftermost 15 account ,we accept apparent addition aspect of our aggregation - resilience, fight. We threw our bodies in the box," the Frenchman was quoted as adage by Arsenal.com.
"You accept apparent today a abstruse aspect of our aggregation that was actually acceptable but as able-bodied a brainy aspect that was bare in a bold of that stature.
"There is article in the aggregation that is appropriate on the brainy advanced breadth we accept abounding times been questioned.
"But we accept apparent that at West Ham aback we were 1-0 down, we accept apparent that afresh today aback we were a bit backs to the bank in the aftermost 15 minutes. There's a abundant adherence and a abundant spirit in the side."
Arsenal had led the alliance by bristles credibility beforehand this ages but arresting frailties were apparent at City afore black draws with Everton and Chelsea confused them off top atom and larboard abounding pundits analytic their appellation ambitions.
Further alone credibility looked acceptable as they trailed assignment candidates West Ham United 1-0 abroad in the additional bisected of Thursday's affray afore angry aback to affirmation a 3-1 win which they followed up with Sunday's success.
"We've appear out of actual difficult games," Wenger said.
"We played Everton, we played Man City, Chelsea, at West ham, at Newcastle and we alone some credibility but I acquainted it was added bottomward to the abundant agenda and abbreviate accretion time we had than to the adversity of the games."
They host Cardiff City on Wednesday afore Saturday's FA Cup third annular tie at home to accomplished rivals Tottenham Hotspur marks the end of the animated run of Christmas fixtures.
The abundant agenda has taken its assessment with almanac signing Mesut Ozil and midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who has been in a affluent attitude of goalscoring anatomy this season, both missing the Newcastle bout with injury.
The duo's absence was an accessible account for the abridgement of affairs created by the visitors, who came abutting to acceptance aloof afore halftime through Moussa Sissoko and again Mathieu Debuchy.
Arsenal controlled the bold at the alpha of the additional bisected with Giroud's attack breaking the deadlock, but the striker ashen a august affairs to bifold the advantage afore the visitors autonomous to retreat into arresting mode.
Wenger added to that by authoritative careful substitutions in the final stages that larboard Arsenal with a aback bristles blessed to sit on the bend of their breadth and bright the battery of assurance as Newcastle dictated play.
For all the possession, though, the home ancillary struggled to acquisition a way through the accumulation of bodies.
Loic Remy accouterment the alone absolute moment of agitation aback Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny cannoned a approval adjoin his arch but the brawl rebounded accomplished the post.
"For years, we were adolescent (and beneath able) to abide this affectionate of burden but we accept consistently been up there at the top," Wenger said.
"If you analyse able-bodied our after-effects we accept consistently been up there. Aftermost year in this period, we were out of the appellation chase but 2013 we accept been actually consistent," he said afore axis to this seasons' affairs of a 14th alliance championship.
"Look we accept in ourselves and we are bent to accord our best actually and to about-face aback on this division at the end and anticipate we accept accustomed our best. I achievement it will be abundant of advance but it's a continued way to go - it's too aboriginal to say that."
