🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-1
Small Crossword No. 1 (Hard)
24 original clues, typically 10 to 20 minutes. Rarer words and trickier, punnier clues. Play it on screen with a timer and check tools, or print it on one page.
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Across
- 1Pointed weapon (5)
- 6Rub out (5)
- 7Plaid pattern (6)
- 9Green and soft-covered (5)
- 12Make good of a tool (3)
- 13Period in history (3)
- 14Haul a car (3)
- 15Nothing (3)
- 16Happening (5)
- 18Aimless drawing (6)
- 20Not tight (5)
- 21Come in (5)
Down
- 1Puts down (4)
- 2Say a prayer (4)
- 3Corn has one (3)
- 4Sharp-minded (6)
- 5Cause (6)
- 8Small salamander (4)
- 9Fix (4)
- 10Orange songbird (6)
- 11Wild West bar (6)
- 16Otherwise (4)
- 17Swerve (4)
- 19Period at the end of a sentence (3)
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