Archive · Puzzle #54
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Mini Crossword
Across
- 1Smash
- 5Heart vessel
- 6Thorny shrub
- 7Wet roast
- 8Sheltered side
Down
- 5Swedish pop group
- 1Story lesson
- 2Get up
- 3Union member
- 4Long-eared hopper
Weekend Mini Crossword puzzles are deliberately the hardest in the weekly rotation. Puzzle #54 (Sunday, July 19, 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-July sits in the steady-rotation middle of the calendar month. The Mini Crossword difficulty calibration does not adjust for calendar position; puzzle #54 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.
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