Each 2026 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.
2026 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 2026 3D Crosswords World Championship.
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
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
Clues by Komorník and Grid by Gin. Komorník is a major contributor to the success of the 3D Calendar in several roles and this is the third year in a row that he has presented us with a November Extra puzzle. I have vivid memories of last year’s offering,
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.
Clues by Imogen and Grid by Gin. Between the Scylla of what looks to be a monstrous construction by Shark for October and the Charybdian vortex of Sirius’s force-field we find… a normal puzzle, by Imogen and Gin. However, Imogen can be a most proficiently awkward concealer of what he really means, and Gin’s grids always present their themes in ingenious ways.
Clues by Imogen and Grid by Gin Enter the prize draw by 30 September. I seem to hear the strains of Henry Hall and his Orchestra:Away with dull care, the day is set fair, a wireless set near to bring us good cheer! The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph consisting of the outline… Read more Hints & Tips September 2023
Clues by Pickles and Grid by Gin Theme: A tribute to our yearly calendar The winner of the December puzzle is Andrew Wyss of Leeds. Review of the December 2022 3D crossword This was a witty puzzle to finish the year, and we may surely be permitted to blow our own trumpets once in a… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – December 2022
Clues by Pickles and Grid by Gin The background for this puzzle is an Alan Tunnicliffe photograph of a fox in grass with buttercups. This puzzle by Pickles uses a conventional 7x5x5 grid by Gin and the theme is particularly appropriate for the publication in which it is printed. Letters in the three shaded squares… Read more Hints & Tips December 2022
