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🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-6

Small Crossword No. 6 (Hard)

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Small Crossword No. 6 (Hard)ID small-hard-6
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Across

  1. 1Festival, informally (4)
  2. 5Killer whale (4)
  3. 6Part of a table or a trip (3)
  4. 9British nobleman (4)
  5. 10Corn has one (3)
  6. 11Eight musical notes (6)
  7. 13Spoken (4)
  8. 16Once more (4)
  9. 17Sitting room (6)
  10. 19Make good of a tool (3)
  11. 20Red octagon sign (4)
  12. 23Place for a massage (3)
  13. 24Wild animal's den (4)
  14. 25Just (4)

Down

  1. 1Enemy (3)
  2. 2Period in history (3)
  3. 3Rolled-up parchment (6)
  4. 4Baby powder mineral (4)
  5. 6Not fat (4)
  6. 7Edge of a roof (4)
  7. 8Got bigger (4)
  8. 12Plaid pattern (6)
  9. 13Musical work (4)
  10. 14Rough scraping sound (4)
  11. 15Size of a floor (4)
  12. 18Nordic capital (4)
  13. 21Cooking fluid used for frying (3)
  14. 22Snoop (3)
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