Clues by Carpathian and Grid by Patch. This is the first review I have written for a puzzle by Carpathian and what a pleasure the solving experience proved to be.
3D Crossword Solution – February 2025
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Hints & Tips February 2025
Clues by Carpathian and Grid by Patch Enter the prize draw by 28 February. The background for this puzzle is a photograph of some beetroots. This puzzle by Carpathian uses a conventional 7x5x6 grid by Patch and commemorates the untimely death, 160 years ago, of a pioneer in a certain field, whose name is to be found… Read more Hints & Tips February 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.
Errata: For owners of the printed calendar, we are very sorry but there are some corrections needed in the printed copies.
by Imogen and Calluna
by Carpathian and Patch
by Curmudgeon and Chalicea
by Paul and Absolution
by Sirius
by Vlad and Calluna
by Soup and Komorník
by Shark
by Enigmatist and Gin
by Komorník
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3D Crossword Solution – March 2024
Clues by Carpathian and Grid by Patch. Carpathian and Patch provided us with the second maritime themed puzzle of the year — from disastrous storms at sea in January to lifeboats in March.
Hints & Tips March 2024
Clues by Carpathian and Grid by Patch Enter the prize draw by 31 March. The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph showing a colourful seaside village with a prominent lifebelt. This puzzle uses a conventional 7x5x6 grid by Patch and marks the centenary of the foundation of a body. The red cells contain the… Read more Hints & Tips March 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 Raich and Calluna
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 – September 2022
Clues by Imogen and Grid by Patch Theme: The Hobbit The winner of the September puzzle is Robin Stephenson of London. Review of the September 2022 3D crossword I quailed when considering Imogen’s September puzzle, for of all the Guardian daily setters, he is the one I often find the most difficult. He was once… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – September 2022
Hints & Tips September 2022
Clues by Imogen and Grid by Patch In a Patch in the ground lived an Imogen. Not a nasty, dirty, wet Patch, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down: it was an Imogen-Patch, and that means a grid… Read more Hints & Tips September 2022
2022 puzzles
by Imogen and Patch
by Vlad and Aramis
by Raich and Bozzy
by Pickles and Gin
3D Crossword Solution – March 2021
Clues by Arachne and Grid by Patch. The winner of the March puzzle was Robin Stephenson of London. We were told that this puzzle marks no specific anniversary.