🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-10
Small Crossword No. 10 (Hard)
28 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
- 1Clean the deck (4)
- 5Therefore (4)
- 6Man's best friend (3)
- 9Looked at carefully (4)
- 10Back when (3)
- 11Cloud of gas and dust in space (6)
- 13Pair (4)
- 16Help someone do wrong (4)
- 17Prize for good work (6)
- 19Blade for a rower (3)
- 20Wide-eyed with excitement (4)
- 23Snoop (3)
- 24Restaurant list (4)
- 25Hunted animal (4)
Down
- 1Notice, or visit a doctor (3)
- 2Dryly humorous (3)
- 3List of meeting items (6)
- 4Be a sign of (4)
- 6Smear (4)
- 7Stare at rudely (4)
- 8Animal that climbs mountains (4)
- 12Striped digging mammal (6)
- 13Fall (4)
- 14365 days (4)
- 15Off course (4)
- 18Sloped path (4)
- 21Digit that comes before two (3)
- 22Fellow (3)
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