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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Mini Crossword

Puzzle #22

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Across

  1. 1Diced food
  2. 5Push
  3. 6Heavenly being
  4. 7Noise
  5. 8Shade source

Down

  1. 5Speedy
  2. 1Respect
  3. 2Quarrel
  4. 3Stage view
  5. 4Gripped

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1A · acrossDiced food

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Mid-week Mini Crossword puzzles are calibrated between the easy early-week tier and the harder weekend tier. Puzzle #22 from Wednesday, June 17, 2026 reflects that middle setting: longer solve time than Monday or Tuesday on average, but without the harder calibration the weekend reserves. The mid-week puzzles are the ones most players consider canonical Mini Crossword — neither padded easy nor stretched difficult.

Mid-June sits in the steady-rotation middle of the calendar month. The Mini Crossword difficulty calibration does not adjust for calendar position; puzzle #22 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.