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Mini Crossword

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Play our new Mini Crossword.

Mini Crossword

How quickly can you solve our new pocket-sized puzzle?

Tricky clue

This clue stumped our Mini Crossword testers. Can you answer it?

Tricky words can bring a whole puzzle to a screeching halt. I knew this one had missed the mark.

  • Liam Runnalls
Play the new Mini Crossword.

Can you solve our new Mini Crossword in under 60 seconds?

Ten clues. Twenty-five squares. Welcome to your daily dose of addictive, brain-teasing fun.

  • Lynne Cairncross
Australian Jigsaw Puzzle Association members Louise Jackett (left) and Heidi Schwegler.

Fifty minutes to make a 1000-piece jigsaw fit? For these stars, that puzzle is no problem

Record numbers are competing in competitive jigsaw puzzling locally and heading to Spain for this year’s world championships.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Nancy Sibtain, 97, is still a keen writer of cryptic crosswords.

Nancy found errors in our cryptic crosswords 35 years ago, so we hired her. At 97, she’s still puzzling you

What started as a “bee in her bonnet” has led to a decades-long career for cryptic crossword compiler Nancy Sibtain – and she has no plans to stop.

  • Carolyn Webb
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Liam Runnalls and Angas Tiernan

Small secret becomes online puzzle phenomenon (6,7)

Minute Cryptic, an Australian crossword craze, is going global.

  • Elizabeth Flux
Crossword compiler Rachel Kelly.

Our newest crossword compiler shares her cryptic tips and tricks

David Astle describes Rachel Kelly’s clues as “neat and zestful - both fair and fresh”. It appears our solvers are fans of her work, too.

  • Lynne Cairncross

Was I wrong to finish a stranger’s Wordle?

It’s the end of the Wordle as we know it, writes our Modern Guru.

  • Danny Katz
Column 8 granny dinkus

Elastic fantastic saves the day

That one’s going straight to the back of the garage.

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