Archive · Puzzle #61
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Mini Crossword
Across
- 1Underthings
- 5Heart vessel
- 7Sweetener
- 8Rock
- 9Finishes
Down
- 1Low voice
- 2Path
- 3Inert gas
- 4Rise
- 6Greek war god
Weekend Mini Crossword puzzles are deliberately the hardest in the weekly rotation. Puzzle #61 (Sunday, July 26, 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.
Late-July puzzles close the calendar month, with puzzle #61 part of that closing run. The Mini Crossword calibration does not shift specifically for end-of-month — the puzzle difficulty follows the day-of-week band per the published methodology — but players who track monthly solve streaks often pay extra attention to the closing days to lock in a full-month run.
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