🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-12
Small Crossword No. 12 (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
- 1Tiny building block of matter (4)
- 5Remedy (4)
- 6Make lace (3)
- 9Test (4)
- 10Bullfighter's cheer (3)
- 11Universe (6)
- 13Banana's wrapper (4)
- 16Help someone do wrong (4)
- 17Painful test (6)
- 19Oval thing that hatches (3)
- 20Circle of string (4)
- 23Doll or teddy bear (3)
- 24Not here anymore (4)
- 25Once more (4)
Down
- 1Top card, or a serve that can't be returned (3)
- 2Formal wear, for short (3)
- 3Wise prophet (6)
- 4Short office note (4)
- 6Burial vault (4)
- 7Soothing sunburn plant (4)
- 8Try out (4)
- 12Wild West bar (6)
- 13Rhyme writer (4)
- 14Therefore (4)
- 15Nervous (4)
- 18Pond scum plant (4)
- 21Digit that comes before two (3)
- 22Church bench (3)
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Bite-sized puzzles with a proper grid and plenty of crossings. Rarer words and trickier, punnier clues. More puzzles are on the free crossword puzzles page, including a daily mini crossword and themed puzzles.
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