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Friday, June 12, 2026

Mini Crossword

Puzzle #17

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Across

  1. 1Big party
  2. 5Felony
  3. 6Tracking system
  4. 7Each
  5. 8Sunset side

Down

  1. 5Ship hands
  2. 1Courageous
  3. 2Assistants
  4. 3Clever
  5. 4Hatred, archaically

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1A · acrossBig party

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Friday Mini Crossword puzzles run at the harder end of the weekly difficulty curve, though not yet at the weekend ceiling. Puzzle #17 (Friday, June 12, 2026) reflects that calibration: longer solve times, occasional unusual vocabulary or pattern, and more reliance on strategic guess selection than the early-week material requires. Players using the archive to build skill should treat Fridays as the practical training-day puzzles.

Mid-June sits in the steady-rotation middle of the calendar month. The Mini Crossword difficulty calibration does not adjust for calendar position; puzzle #17 runs the same calibration the day-of-week band specifies, regardless of where in the month it falls. The mid-month archive is the most representative slice of typical Mini Crossword difficulty over time.