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Saturday, June 13, 2026

Mini Crossword

Puzzle #18

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Across

  1. 1Wound fluid
  2. 4Coal digger
  3. 6Breathing
  4. 7Memos
  5. 8A perfect score

Down

  1. 4Adult male
  2. 1Plane driver
  3. 2Join together
  4. 3Lucky number
  5. 5Music note

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1A · acrossWound fluid

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Weekend Mini Crossword puzzles are deliberately the hardest in the weekly rotation. Puzzle #18 (Saturday, June 13, 2026) is one of those: calibrated for solve times noticeably longer than weekday material and for the kind of edge-case pattern or vocabulary that produces "I thought I knew this one" experiences. Players who solve weekend puzzles consistently are at the upper end of the regular-player population.

Mid-June sits in the steady-rotation middle of the calendar month. The Mini Crossword difficulty calibration does not adjust for calendar position; puzzle #18 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.