Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by Gin. A larger 9 x 5 x 5 puzzle this month with more than its share of mysteries. Nine clues (all the long ones) lack locations and definitions in their clues
3D Crossword Solution – November 2025
Tag: Enigmatist
Hints & Tips November 2025
Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by Gin Enter the prize draw by 30 November. The background for this puzzle is a Michael Reichelt photo of the moss-covered roots of a tree. This puzzle by Enigmatist uses a conventional 9x5x5 grid by Gin and concerns ten dates of varying historical significance. A document, a dynasty, a heroine, an… Read more Hints & Tips November 2025
2025 puzzles
Each 2025 3D crossword puzzle will be published below by the beginning of the month. The deadline to enter the prize draw for regular monthly puzzles will be the last day of that month. Extra puzzles will be added from time to time and will have later, mid-month deadlines.
Hints & Tips: If you need helping cracking that last clue, or even getting started, hints and tips for regular puzzles will be published usually in the last week of each month. Subscribe to the Hints & Tips newsletter to receive them by email.
2025 3D Crosswords World Championship: Solvers who buy the calendar and correctly solve 12 puzzles by the due date each month will be eligible to enter our annual tie-break competition for the 2025 3D Crosswords World Championship. Check your progress to see how you’re tracking.
Errata: For owners of the printed calendar, we are very sorry but there are some corrections needed in the printed copies.
by Carpathian and Patch
by Curmudgeon and Chalicea
by Soup and Komorník
by Guinevere and Komorník
by Enigmatist and Gin
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3D Crossword Solution – October 2024
Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by Bozzy. A month-length appropriate grid this month at 7 x 5 x 6 and 33 entries, with one long unclued entry for thematic guidance.
Hints & Tips October 2024
Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by Bozzy Enter the prize draw by 31 October. The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph depicting many large barrels. This puzzle by Enigmatist uses a conventional 7x5x6 grid by Bozzy and commemorates an event whose name appears unclued in the grid (Day 15). Both clues and solutions include… Read more Hints & Tips October 2024
2024 puzzles
Each 2024 3D crossword puzzle will be published below by the beginning of the month. The deadline to enter the prize draw for regular monthly puzzles will be the last day of that month. Extra puzzles will be added from time to time and will have later, mid-month deadlines.
Hints & Tips: If you need helping cracking that last clue, or even getting started, hints and tips for regular puzzles will be published usually in the last week of each month. Subscribe to the Hints & Tips newsletter to receive them by email.
2024 3D Crosswords World Championship: Solvers who buy the calendar and correctly solve 12 puzzles by the due date each month will be eligible to enter our annual tie-break competition for the 2024 3D Crosswords World Championship. Check your progress if you’re not sure if you qualify.
by Arachne and Rikki
by Paul and etc
by Amoeba and Calluna
No hints for Extra puzzles
by Enigmatist and Bozzy
by Komorník and Calluna
No hints for Extra puzzles
by Vlad and Calluna
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3D Crossword Solution – July 2023
Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by etc. The winner of the July puzzle is Norah Clewes of Cheshire. Setters and designers like to set themselves tasks: for some it is the pangram (or, for the really twisted, the triple pangram); for others the hiding of a theme
Hints & Tips July 2023
Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by etc Enter the prize draw by 31 July. The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph showing the quayside in an English port. This puzzle uses a conventional 7x5x5 grid by etc and marks the 250th anniversary of an event (this should give you the year, but the event… Read more Hints & Tips July 2023
2023 puzzles
by Vlad and Calluna
by Puck and XAM
by Imogen and Gin
by Komorník
Tie-break puzzle — no Hints & Tips!
3D Crossword Solution – March 2022
Clues by Enigmatist and Grid by etc Theme: M. C. Escher The winner of the March puzzle is Kevin McDermid of Newcastle upon Tyne. Review of the March 2022 3D crossword We were told that this puzzle marks the 50th anniversary of the death of X; solutions to nine clues are the names of X’s… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – March 2022