Archive · Puzzle #40
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Mini Crossword
Across
- 1Swedish pop group
- 5Lead
- 7Take pleasure
- 8Game points
- 9Colored
Down
- 1Many years
- 2Group
- 3Jewel
- 4Worship
- 6Watched
Weekend Mini Crossword puzzles are deliberately the hardest in the weekly rotation. Puzzle #40 (Sunday, July 5, 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.
Early-July puzzles open the calendar month — useful entry points for new players who want a clean starting puzzle number to anchor a daily streak from. The Mini Crossword archive numbering is continuous, so puzzle #40 fits in the wider sequence but the first few days of a new month make natural restart points after a missed streak.
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