Archive · Puzzle #19
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Mini Crossword
Across
- 1Mom
- 5Get up
- 7Feel
- 8Genuflect
- 9Creative work
Down
- 1Face cover
- 2Sports venue
- 3Coal digger
- 4Plus
- 6Slithery fish
Weekend Mini Crossword puzzles are deliberately the hardest in the weekly rotation. Puzzle #19 (Sunday, June 14, 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 #19 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.