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.

Errata: For owners of the printed calendar, we are very sorry but there are some corrections needed in the printed copies.

2025 3D Crossword Calendar February grid page
February 2025

by Carpathian and Patch

Solved it? Enter the prize draw by 28 February.

2025 3D Crossword Calendar March grid page
March 2025

by Boatman and Bozzy

2025 3D Crossword Calendar April grid page
April 2025

by Curmudgeon and Chalicea

2025 3D Crossword Calendar May grid page
May 2025

by Raich and Rikki

2025 3D Crossword Calendar June grid page
June 2025

by Paul and Absolution

2025 3D Crossword Calendar July grid page
July 2025

by Sirius

2025 3D Crossword Calendar August grid page
August 2025

by Vlad and Calluna

2025 3D Crossword Calendar September grid page
September 2025

by Soup and Komorník

2025 3D Crossword Calendar October grid page
October 2025

by Shark

2025 3D Crossword Calendar November grid page
November 2025

by Enigmatist and Gin

2025 3D Crossword Calendar December grid page
December 2025

by Komorník

Cover of the 2025 3D Crossword Calendar
3D Crossword Calendar 2025

Order your copy of the 2025 Calendar now.

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.

July 2024 grid page
July 2024

by Curmudgeon and Chalicea

July Hints & Tips

July solution

September Extra 2024 grid page
September Extra 2024

by Amoeba and Calluna

No hints for Extra puzzles

September Extra solution

November Extra 2024 grid page
November Extra 2024

by Komorník and Calluna

No hints for Extra puzzles

November Extra solution

Cover of the 2025 3D Crossword Calendar
3D Crossword Calendar 2025

Order your copy of the 2025 Calendar now.

Hints & Tips July 2023

July 2023 grid page

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

2021 Puzzle of the Year

Araucaria tribute puzzle

This year we introduced a vote from solvers to select the 3D Calendar puzzle of the year. The clear winners were Sirius and Enigmatist with their amazing two sphere tribute to Araucaria with Shark’s inspired Freddie Mercury/Farrokh Balsara puzzle as runner up. Each voter was permitted three votes to be allocated as they felt appropriate.… Read more 2021 Puzzle of the Year