🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-2
Small Crossword No. 2 (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
- 1Practice boxing (4)
- 5Therefore (4)
- 6Lower the lights (3)
- 9Looked at carefully (4)
- 10Fuss, as in "much ___ about nothing" (3)
- 11Cloud of gas and dust in space (6)
- 13Burden (4)
- 16Help someone do wrong (4)
- 17Toward the sky (6)
- 19Spoil (3)
- 20Wide-eyed with excitement (4)
- 23Layer of wood (3)
- 24Restaurant list (4)
- 25Hunted animal (4)
Down
- 1Notice, or visit a doctor (3)
- 2Snoop (3)
- 3List of meeting items (6)
- 4Sat on a horse (4)
- 6Smear (4)
- 7Not working (4)
- 8Castle's water ring (4)
- 12Striped digging mammal (6)
- 13Bump (4)
- 14October birthstone (4)
- 15Off course (4)
- 18Sloped path (4)
- 21Digit that comes before two (3)
- 22Fellow (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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