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🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-8

Small Crossword No. 8 (Hard)

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Small Crossword No. 8 (Hard)ID small-hard-8
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Across

  1. 1Clean the deck (4)
  2. 5Therefore (4)
  3. 6Lower the lights (3)
  4. 9Looked at carefully (4)
  5. 10Fuss, as in "much ___ about nothing" (3)
  6. 11Cloud of gas and dust in space (6)
  7. 13Pair (4)
  8. 16Help someone do wrong (4)
  9. 17Prize for good work (6)
  10. 19Blade for a rower (3)
  11. 20Wide-eyed with excitement (4)
  12. 23Snoop (3)
  13. 24Restaurant list (4)
  14. 25Hunted animal (4)

Down

  1. 1Notice, or visit a doctor (3)
  2. 2Dryly humorous (3)
  3. 3List of meeting items (6)
  4. 4Be a sign of (4)
  5. 6Smear (4)
  6. 7Not working (4)
  7. 8Castle's water ring (4)
  8. 12Striped digging mammal (6)
  9. 13Fall (4)
  10. 14365 days (4)
  11. 15Off course (4)
  12. 18Sloped path (4)
  13. 21Digit that comes before two (3)
  14. 22Fellow (3)
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