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🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-15

Small Crossword No. 15 (Hard)

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Small Crossword No. 15 (Hard)ID small-hard-15
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Across

  1. 1Record of events (3)
  2. 4Indian ruler (4)
  3. 8Copy (3)
  4. 9Spoken (4)
  5. 10Bowling target (3)
  6. 11Land measure, about a football field (4)
  7. 12Mystery wrapped in a riddle (6)
  8. 14Sly look (4)
  9. 15Harbor platform (4)
  10. 19One more than ten (6)
  11. 21Too cute (4)
  12. 23Bullfighter's cheer (3)
  13. 24Killer whale (4)
  14. 25Not well (3)
  15. 26Looked at carefully (4)
  16. 27Period at the end of a sentence (3)

Down

  1. 1Suit jacket flap (5)
  2. 2Give your view (5)
  3. 3Lamp wish granter (5)
  4. 4Wander (4)
  5. 5Place with pinball machines (6)
  6. 6Pickle holder (3)
  7. 7Bubbly soda flavored with ginger (3)
  8. 13Birthplace of the Olympics (6)
  9. 16Egg-shaped (5)
  10. 17Big string instrument played sitting down (5)
  11. 18Got down on one knee (5)
  12. 20Go first (4)
  13. 21Part of a sock's end (3)
  14. 22Dryly humorous (3)
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