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🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-13

Small Crossword No. 13 (Hard)

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Small Crossword No. 13 (Hard)ID small-hard-13
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Across

  1. 1Name tag (5)
  2. 6Give your view (5)
  3. 7Part of a sock's end (3)
  4. 10Lamp wish granter (5)
  5. 11Dryly humorous (3)
  6. 12Birthplace of the Olympics (6)
  7. 14Shut loudly (4)
  8. 17Go first (4)
  9. 18Procession down the street (6)
  10. 20Goal (3)
  11. 21Egg-shaped (5)
  12. 25Give it a go (3)
  13. 26Big string instrument played sitting down (5)
  14. 27Got down on one knee (5)

Down

  1. 1Record of events (3)
  2. 2Copy (3)
  3. 3Recycling container (3)
  4. 4Mystery wrapped in a riddle (6)
  5. 5Sly look (4)
  6. 7Too cute (4)
  7. 8Killer whale (4)
  8. 9Looked at carefully (4)
  9. 13One more than ten (6)
  10. 14Small quarrel (4)
  11. 15Wild animal's den (4)
  12. 16Soldiers in a big group (4)
  13. 19Harbor platform (4)
  14. 22Bullfighter's cheer (3)
  15. 23Not well (3)
  16. 24Period at the end of a sentence (3)
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