🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-16
Small Crossword No. 16 (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
- 1Bump (4)
- 5Notice, or visit a doctor (3)
- 8October birthstone (4)
- 9Snoop (3)
- 10Off course (4)
- 11List of meeting items (6)
- 13Sat on a horse (4)
- 14Sloped path (4)
- 18Striped digging mammal (6)
- 20Smear (4)
- 22Digit that comes before two (3)
- 23Stare at rudely (4)
- 24Fellow (3)
- 25Animal that climbs mountains (4)
Down
- 1Burden (4)
- 2Toward the sky (6)
- 3Spoil (3)
- 4Layer of wood (3)
- 5Practice boxing (4)
- 6Therefore (4)
- 7Looked at carefully (4)
- 12Cloud of gas and dust in space (6)
- 15Wide-eyed with excitement (4)
- 16Restaurant list (4)
- 17Hunted animal (4)
- 19Help someone do wrong (4)
- 20Man's best friend (3)
- 21Back when (3)
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