Arkadium Daily Crossword

About Arkadium Daily Crossword

Arkadium is a web games company that also runs the games pages of many newspapers, and its Daily Crossword is one of the plainest crosswords it offers: a standard American grid with straightforward, mostly definition-style clues, new each day. The puzzles are numbered and credited to Boatload Puzzles in the game.

When the game opens you choose which date to play. The current day's grid is the new one, and the archive keeps recent days so you can go back to a puzzle you missed earlier in the week. The grid and the clue list sit side by side, a timer runs at the top, and the Check, Reveal and Print buttons work on a letter, a word or the whole puzzle.

The crossword is free in the browser with ads, and a leaderboard shows how others did. It suits solvers who want a daily grid without a newspaper subscription and without cryptic wordplay, and it sits alongside Arkadium's smaller mini crossword and its themed crosswords from Stan Newman, Sheffer and Penny Dell.

How to play Arkadium Daily Crossword

1. Open the Daily Crossword and choose today's date, or an earlier date from the archive.
2. Click a square or a clue to select an across or down entry.
3. Type your answers; the grid moves along the word as you go.
4. Use Check to test a letter, word or the whole grid, or Reveal if you are stuck.
5. Finish the grid to stop the timer and see how you compare on the leaderboard.

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Tips

• Fill the short entries and fill-in-the-blank clues first; they unlock the long answers.
• Use the archive on slow days to catch up on puzzles you missed.
• Print the grid if you prefer solving on paper.

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