🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-5
Small Crossword No. 5 (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
- 1Clean the deck (4)
- 5Therefore (4)
- 6Tear (3)
- 9Looked at carefully (4)
- 10Poem of praise (3)
- 11Stinging plant (6)
- 13Prod (4)
- 16Fishing line holder (4)
- 17Highly decorated (6)
- 19Top card, or a serve that can't be returned (3)
- 20Recedes (4)
- 23Courtroom subject (3)
- 24Soothing sunburn plant (4)
- 25Sandwich filling (4)
Down
- 1Notice, or visit a doctor (3)
- 2Dryly humorous (3)
- 3List of meeting items (6)
- 4Be a sign of (4)
- 6Memorization by repetition (4)
- 7Not working (4)
- 8Banana's wrapper (4)
- 12Clef for high notes (6)
- 13Aim, or a soccer score (4)
- 14Killer whale (4)
- 15Once more (4)
- 18Squad (4)
- 21Feathered scarf, or a squeezing snake (3)
- 22Group of things (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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