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7×7 mini crossword

Choose one of two 7×7 layouts. Each is four little rooms. A black cross keeps them apart. Each room is a 3×3 word square, so the down answers match the across answers.

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Puzzle 1 of 2: Four small rooms. Replay any puzzle as often as you like.

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Tap a square to select it; tap again to switch across/down. Use arrow keys to move.

Across

  1. 1. To cry with short breaths
  2. 4. The opposite of no
  3. 7. A single thing
  4. 8. What you see with
  5. 9. Furniture you sleep on
  6. 10. A large body of salt water
  7. 11. A short helpful hint
  8. 14. A large primate
  9. 17. Frozen water
  10. 18. A friend
  11. 19. A small round green vegetable
  12. 20. A shade tree

Down

  1. 1. To cry with short breaths
  2. 2. A single thing
  3. 3. Furniture you sleep on
  4. 4. The opposite of no
  5. 5. What you see with
  6. 6. A large body of salt water
  7. 11. A short helpful hint
  8. 12. Frozen water
  9. 13. A small round green vegetable
  10. 14. A large primate
  11. 15. A friend
  12. 16. A shade tree
A larger crossword grid standing in for the 7 by 7 word-square puzzle
The live 7×7 is the board above, not this still.

How the rooms work

A solid 7×7 of long crossing words is a different construction from a 5×5, and I did not want to publish one I could not check by hand. This grid is checkable. The middle row and the middle column are black. Each corner is three across words of three letters, and those same three words read down. In the first layout, top left is SOB, ONE, BED. Top right is YES, EYE, SEA. Bottom left is TIP, ICE, PEA. Bottom right is APE, PAL, ELM. The second layout swaps the rooms left to right. Use the selector above the board to choose either version. If a down word ever disagreed with the across word, the square would be wrong. Here they agree.

Boston Globe Sunday is also 7×7, but it is their puzzle, with their constructors, and the archive is for subscribers. The Times midi is 9×9 or 11×11 in Beebom’s description, not 7×7. I am using 7×7 as a size, not as a claim that you are playing either of those products.

Short three-letter clues used in the 7 by 7 mini
Every entry in this 7×7 is three letters.

Questions

Why do across and down match?

Each corner is a word square. That is the design, not a glitch.

Is this the Globe Sunday mini?

No. Same size on one day of their week, different words, and theirs is not reprinted here.

Sources

Public-source check: 2026-11-04. Pages from the same publisher count as one source.

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