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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
Each 2022 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 in the second half of each month. Subscribe to the Hints & Tips newsletter to receive them by email.
2022 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 2022 3D Crosswords World Championship. If you have been entering the monthly competitions, you can check your progress towards the tie-break qualification.
by Imogen and Patch
by Vlad and Aramis
by Raich and Bozzy
by Pickles and Gin
You are invited to vote for your favourite puzzle of the year from the 12 puzzles featured in the Calendar plus the November Extra puzzle.
You are allowed to allocate a total of 3 votes. All 3 may be allocated to one puzzle, or two votes to one puzzle and a single vote to a second puzzle, or one vote each to three puzzles.
All our solvers and contributors are encouraged to vote. The only rule is that setters and designers don’t vote for their own creations, magnificent as these might be.
| Month | Setter / Designer | Download |
|---|---|---|
| JAN | Arachne / Bozzy | JAN puzzle JAN solution |
| FEB | Shark | FEB puzzle FEB solution |
| MAR | Sirius | MAR puzzle MAR solution |
| MAR Extra | Puck / Sirius | MAR Extra puzzle MAR Extra solution |
| APR | Nutmeg / Elijah | APR puzzle APR solution |
| MAY | Rufus / Sirius | MAY puzzle MAY solution |
| JUN | Curmudgeon | JUN puzzle JUN solution |
| JUN Extra | Pickles | JUN puzzle JUN solution |
| JUL | Eclogue / Logogriph | JUL puzzle JUL solution |
| AUG | Picaroon / Philostrate | AUG puzzle AUG solution |
| AUG Extra | Enigmatist | AUG Extra puzzle AUG Extra solution |
| SEP | Puck / Aramis | SEP puzzle SEP solution |
| SEP Extra | Sirius / Gin | SEP Extra puzzle SEP Extra solution |
| OCT | Pasquale / Aramis | OCT puzzle OCT solution |
| NOV | Anax / Oberto | NOV puzzle NOV solution |
| DEC | Enigmatist / 45 | DEC puzzle DEC solution |
| Month | Setter / Designer | Download |
|---|---|---|
| JAN | Arachne / Gin | JAN solution |
| FEB | Vlad / Bozzy | FEB puzzle FEB solution |
| MAR | Shark / Chalicea | MAR puzzle MAR solution |
| MAR Extra | Ecologue / Logogriph | MAR Extra puzzle |
| APR | Enigmatist / Pickles | APR puzzle APR solution |
| MAY | Pasquale / Philostrate | MAY puzzle MAY solution |
| MAY Extra | Bozzius / Bozzy | MAY Extra puzzle |
| JUN | Anax / Pickles | JUN puzzle JUN solution |
| JUN Extra | Pickles | JUN Extra jigsaw puzzle JUN Extra directed puzzle |
| JUL | Nutmeg / Aramis | JUL puzzle JUL solution |
| AUG | Tramp / etc | AUG puzzle AUG solution |
| SEP | Sirius | SEP puzzle SEP solution |
| SEP Extra | Encota | SEP Extra puzzle & solution |
| OCT | Ecologue / Logogriph | OCT puzzle OCT solution |
| NOV | Curmudgeon | NOV puzzle NOV solution |
| DEC | Puck / Bozzy | DEC puzzle DEC solution |
| DEC Extra | Sirius | DEC Extra puzzle DEC Extra solution |
by Qaos and Max Liversidge
by Nutmeg and Mang
by Enigmatist and etc
