
The Independent's Concise Crossword
The Independent's daily quick crossword, 13 by 13, with plain clues.
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The Independent's daily quick crossword, 13 by 13, with plain clues.

The Independent's daily cryptic, free to solve in the browser.

Add a letter, rearrange, and build three new words from the day's starting word.

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

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

Ten multiple-choice trivia questions a day from The New Daily.

Name the day's mystery sound before anyone else, one guess an hour, with hints as the day goes on.

Answer one question a day, then predict how the whole world splits.

Six daily Star Battles, 5x5 to 10x10: one star per row, column and region, none touching.

Get from one small airport to another across the world by picking flights, against the clock.

Crack the day's five-symbol vault code in six tries.

Click from one Wikipedia article to another using only the links, once a day.

Find the day's star athlete across the NBA, MLB and NFL from what their careers share.

Name the day's mystery Broadway musical in eight guesses from year, composer, genre, source and setting clues.

Name the day's mystery Broadway character in eight guesses, from show, year, role, composer and gender clues.

Name the TV show from the first seconds of its theme song, in six tries.

Guess the Dunder Mifflin character from clues, quotes and emojis.

One probability puzzle a day: work out the odds, type a number or fraction, and read the illustrated solution.

Three crossing words, six guesses, and Wordle colours with an extra purple for the wrong word.

Tap to rise and thread the day's thirty shrinking gates.

Nine films described badly, one hidden thread to name.

Wordle with a theme above the board and only four guesses.

Three goblins in a trench coat give you a bilingual riddle a day: translate the pieces to find the password.

Three letters, a ticking clock: make the longest Scrabble words you can that fit them in order.

Three rounds a day: find the one beginning that completes three different words.

Spot sets of three cards on the day's board before the clock runs out.

Name the day's mystery car in eight tries from its make, origin, era, horsepower and engine.

Four images, one hidden word that connects them, revealed one picture at a time.

Push brass gears so every arrow points up, while each push turns the gears it meshes with the other way.

Type words onto a letter grid and clear the matching tiles before the grid fills up.

A pattern flashes on a 5 by 5 grid; tap the same tiles back from memory.

Move and rotate scattered letter tiles until the day's themed words read across and down.

Place the day's nine events on a timeline, earliest to latest.

Hear a clip, then place the song on the timeline by its release year.

Piece together an iconic TIME cover, a new one each day.

Hold the button for a set number of seconds in the dark, with no clock, and let go when you think it is up.

Draw one path from door to door through every cell of a small maze.

Read the day's balance scales and work out the secret weight of every shape, in as few tries as you can.

Three clued word puzzles a day: place the tiles to spell two crossing words.

Five Bible questions a day, with the answers and their Scripture references.

Guess the day's character from The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings or all of Middle-earth.

Remember a cartoon character's colour and mix it back with three sliders, five times a day.

Guess the most popular answers to the day's survey question before three misses end the game.

Rank five films by box office, then rank the same five by critic scores.

Chess on a 6x6 board against a bot, where every few turns someone drafts a new rule that bends the game.

Pick eight of sixteen letters and score every word they can make.

Place tower heights so each edge clue counts the towers you can see.

Arrange small letter grids so a path through them spells the hidden phrase.