🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-3
Small Crossword No. 3 (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
- 1Musical work (4)
- 5Fish eggs (3)
- 8Rough scraping sound (4)
- 9Period in history (3)
- 10Size of a floor (4)
- 11Rolled-up parchment (6)
- 13Baby powder mineral (4)
- 14Nordic capital (4)
- 18Plaid pattern (6)
- 20Not fat (4)
- 22Cooking fluid used for frying (3)
- 23Edge of a roof (4)
- 24Snoop (3)
- 25Got bigger (4)
Down
- 1Spoken (4)
- 2Sitting room (6)
- 3Make good of a tool (3)
- 4Place for a massage (3)
- 5Remainder (4)
- 6Killer whale (4)
- 7British nobleman (4)
- 12Eight musical notes (6)
- 15Red octagon sign (4)
- 16Wild animal's den (4)
- 17Just (4)
- 19Once more (4)
- 20Part of a table or a trip (3)
- 21Corn has one (3)
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