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🧩 Small 9×9 · Hard · ID small-hard-9

Small Crossword No. 9 (Hard)

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Small Crossword No. 9 (Hard)ID small-hard-9
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Across

  1. 1Record of events (3)
  2. 4Small quarrel (4)
  3. 8Copy (3)
  4. 9Not on time (4)
  5. 10Recycling container (3)
  6. 11Size of a floor (4)
  7. 12Mystery wrapped in a riddle (6)
  8. 14Sly look (4)
  9. 15Harbor platform (4)
  10. 19One more than ten (6)
  11. 21Too cute (4)
  12. 23Bullfighter's cheer (3)
  13. 24Killer whale (4)
  14. 25Not well (3)
  15. 26Looked at carefully (4)
  16. 27Period at the end of a sentence (3)

Down

  1. 1Name tag (5)
  2. 2Give your view (5)
  3. 3Lamp wish granter (5)
  4. 4Shut loudly (4)
  5. 5Procession down the street (6)
  6. 6Had a meal (3)
  7. 7Afternoon sip with biscuits (3)
  8. 13Birthplace of the Olympics (6)
  9. 16Egg-shaped (5)
  10. 17Big string instrument played sitting down (5)
  11. 18Got down on one knee (5)
  12. 20Go first (4)
  13. 21Part of a sock's end (3)
  14. 22Dryly humorous (3)
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