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Arkadium Mini Crossword for 19 October 2026 in play: a 5x5 grid with ROBE, PLAZA and ESPY filled down, Across and Down clues beside it, a timer and Check, Reveal and Print buttons

Arkadium Mini Crossword

A five by five crossword on Arkadium, new each day and done in minutes.

The Chicago Mini Crossword for October 6, 2026 by Kelsey Dixon: the info panel with a Start button over the five-by-five grid and its clues

Chicago Mini Crossword (Chicago Sun-Times)

A five-by-five Chicago-flavoured mini crossword, new every day.

A DailyPlay Crossword Mini grid beside a list of clues

Daily Mini Crossword

A five by five crossword with ten clues, new every day and free of ads.

A Crosshare mini crossword being solved on a phone: a 5x5 grid with LAUGH and ELISE filled in, the clue 1D about Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and the on-screen keyboard

Crosshare Daily Mini

A free mini crossword each day, made by a community of puzzle constructors.

Crossherd's mini crossword for 18 October 2026 on a desktop: an empty 5x5 grid with four black squares, the clue Cells that protect neurons above it and the clue lists beside it

Crossherd

A 5x5 mini crossword each day, solved against a timer.

Daily Crossword Quickie for Fri, 16 Oct 2026: an empty five by five grid with two black squares, a running timer and the across and down clues beside it

Daily Crossword Quickie (Daily Maverick)

South Africa's Daily Maverick quick crossword, new every weekday.

Illustration with the words Mini Word Cross on crossword tiles, a New York Post mug and people with pencils

Daily Mini Crossword (New York Post)

A free mini crossword from the New York Post, new every day.

The Observer's Daily Mini Crossword for Friday, October 16: a seven by seven grid by Damian Grove with the across and down clue lists, 1 Across Requiring immediate attention

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Daily Mini Crossword (The Observer, Fordham)

A small crossword from Fordham's student newspaper, new every weekday.

Double Cross No. 93: a seven-by-seven grid beside clue cards that each pair two answers

Double Cross

A daily crossword where every clue has two answers, and you work out which goes where.

Emcee mini crossword on mindloftdaily.com: an empty 5x5 grid with three black squares, the clue 1A Something worth having, and the Across and Down clue lists

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Emcee (Mind Loft)

A five by five mini crossword with fair, everyday clues.

The Fast Crossword icon: a small crossword grid with the letters L and V

Fast Crossword (La Vanguardia)

A daily 5x5 English mini crossword from the games page of La Vanguardia.

The Globe Mini illustration: a pencil drawn with crossword squares on its side

Globe Mini (The Globe and Mail)

A small daily crossword from The Globe and Mail, made for a short break.

Guardian Mini crossword No 293: an empty five by five grid with two black squares on the bottom row, beside its five Across and five Down clues and the Check and Reveal buttons

Guardian Mini Crossword

A numbered five by five crossword from the Guardian, every day.

Jumble Crossword icon: a small numbered crossword grid on a yellow background

Jumble Crossword (Chicago Tribune)

A small daily crossword where every answer comes with its letters scrambled.

LA Times Mini Crossword

A five-by-five crossword from the Los Angeles Times, new every day.

Lex.Games Mini Crossword #918 in the app: a 5x5 grid with MASS and MAGIC filled in, ANIM being typed for 6 Across, Studio Ghibli genre, and the Reveal button and keyboard

Lex.Games Mini Crossword

A five by five daily crossword from Lex Friedman, timed, with a leaderboard.

Mini 5x5 for 18 October 2026: today's empty 5x5 grid with one black square, the timer running, and the Across and Down clues beside it

Mini 5x5

A small daily crossword from Ponder Club: ten clues, one 5x5 grid, a clock and a leaderboard.

Boston Globe Mini Crossword art: a few blue and white crossword squares on a light blue background

Mini Crossword (Boston Globe)

A small daily crossword from the Boston Globe, free to play.

CNA's Daily Mini for 19 October 2026 (Singapore date): an empty four by four grid with 1 Across, Mineral springs, highlighted beside the Across and Down clue lists

Mini Crossword (CNA)

A tiny crossword from Singapore's CNA, new every day and done in minutes.

The Fox News Mini Crossword board for 17 October 2026: a five-row grid with its across and down clues beside it

Mini Crossword (Fox News)

A small daily crossword on Fox News's games page, solved in a few minutes.

The Hindustan Times Mini Crossword for Mon, Oct 19, 2026 on a phone: an empty 5x5 grid with the clue for 1 Across above it, timer and Assist bar on top

Mini Crossword (Hindustan Times)

A small dated crossword from the Hindustan Times, new every morning in India, with an archive of earlier…

Mini Crossword Daily Easy #107 for October 6, 2026, "Plaid to Meet You", edited by Jeff Chen: an empty 5x5 grid with its first row highlighted beside the Across and Down clues, and Reset and Check but

Mini Crossword (minicrossword.com)

A free daily mini crossword, hand-edited by NYT constructor Jeff Chen.

Newsroom mini crossword for 6 October: an empty 4 by 4 grid with one black square beside its clues, from 'Radio modulation (1,1)' to 'Hatchet (3)', with 'Puzzles by Pagemasters' under the grid

Mini Crossword (Newsroom)

A free 4 by 4 crossword each weekday from Newsroom, done in a couple of minutes.

Express Mini Crossword for October 5, 2026 by Aishwarya Khosla: an empty 5x5 grid with black squares, the 1 Across clue Recede highlighted, and the Across and Down clue lists beside it in the PuzzleMe

Mini Crossword (The Indian Express)

A small dated crossword from The Indian Express, ten clues on a 5x5 grid.

The Herald app's Daily Crosswords and Sudoku screen, with crossword and sudoku tiles for the day

Mini Crossword (The Sydney Morning Herald)

A small dated crossword from the Herald and The Age, every day.

Today's Times of India Mini Crossword on a desktop: an empty 5x5 grid with six black squares, a timer, reveal buttons and clues such as Woodturner's spinning machine (5)

Mini Crossword (Times of India)

A small daily crossword from the Times of India, solved against the clock in a few minutes.

Mini Meta's own artwork from The Washington Post: black and white crossword squares set as diamonds on a green tile

Mini Meta

A 5 by 5 mini crossword each day, and a meta that ties the week together.

Mini·5 puzzle 75 for 18 October on desktop: the 5x5 grid with HIM filled in at 1 Across, the clue Wishes for better days, the timer and the on-screen keyboard

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Mini·5 (doce.games)

A five by five crossword a day, against a clock that never stops.

PlayFour! grid: a four-by-four crossword with BRIE across and BEES and SLED among the answers, the R square highlighted

PlayFour!

A four-by-four daily mini crossword with eight clues.

A Pocket Grids 5x5 mini crossword in progress, with the clue 'Inactive chemically' highlighted beside the Across and Down clue lists

Pocket Grids

A 5x5 mini crossword posted to Reddit every day, plus thousands of grids made by players.

USA TODAY PLAY app home screen with today's puzzle, a start button and recent puzzles

Quick Cross (USA TODAY)

USA TODAY's daily mini crossword, built to solve in a few minutes.

Shuffled #255, grid 1 of 3: a 4x4 board of scrambled letters, one J swapped into place and locked green, moves 1/20, clue Triangular sails

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Shuffled

Swap scrambled letters to finish three small crosswords a day before your moves run out.

Slate Mini Crossword title art: a drawn cat reaching for a ball of crossword-grid yarn above the words Slate Mini Crossword

Slate Mini Crossword

A 5x5 crossword from Slate, new every morning at 6.

Squared Away grid: a small crossword with the starter letters D, M, A, L across the top and B, E, F, P down the left side, the rest empty

Squared Away

A mini crossword with two grids and their clues mixed together.

STAT Mini promo: a three by three grid of coloured and white squares, captioned New game from STAT

STAT Mini Crossword

A small weekday crossword with clues from health, medicine and science.

Swap tiles in green, grey and black with a beach umbrella picture square

Swap (Los Angeles Times)

A mini crossword with the letters already in, just in the wrong places.

A Telegraph Mini Crossword in the app: a 5x5 grid filled with FUN, AGAIN, SLIDE, TILES and SAT above an on-screen keyboard

Telegraph Mini Crossword

The Telegraph's free daily mini crossword.

The Daily Eight (The Irish Times)

The Irish Times's eight-clue crossword, every day of the week.

The Mini Crossword

A five-by-five crossword with plain clues, timed, new every day.

The Mini Crossword on Greatest Games at desktop size: the day's empty 5x5 grid beside its five Across and five Down clues, starting with Logic gate that inverts its input

The Mini Crossword (Greatest Games)

A 5x5 daily crossword built to be solved in a minute or two.

The Nano Crossword on desktop: today's empty open 4x4 grid with no black squares beside its four Across and four Down clues and the clock

The Nano Crossword

Sixteen squares, eight words, no black squares: a crossword solved in seconds.

The Wordcrux card: A mini but deadly crossword puzzle, with a daily puzzle grid

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Wordcrux

A mini but deadly crossword: three wrong letters in one square and you lose.

Yahoo Mini puzzle Try to Be Heard (Sep 28, 2026) in play: the 5x5 board partly filled with TEA, WHOSE, HOLY and YES, Across and Down clues on the left and the Instructions panel on the right

Yahoo Mini

Yahoo's daily mini crossword, scored on time and on answers solved cold.

The YourLifeChoices Mini Crossword for 19/10/2026 on a phone: the whole empty 6x6 grid numbered 1 to 5 under the timer and Reveal Letter and Reveal Word

YourLifeChoices Mini Crossword

A dated 6x6 crossword with six plain clues, new each day, with the last week to catch up on.

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