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.
Clues and Grid by Soup. This month’s offering differs in many respects from the usual 3D calendar format — no obvious theme, no serpents, no differently coloured cells, every solution of eight letters, no historical anniversary to research, and an unconventional grid. So, what do we have?
Clues and Grid by Soup Enter the prize draw by 30 November. The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph depicting many large spools of thread. This puzzle by Soup uses an unconventional 7x5x5 grid in which the numbers are placed in shaded squares. Every clue gives rise to an eight-letter solution. These should be… Read more Hints & Tips November 2024
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.
Clues and Grid by Soup. Someone will correct me if wrong, but this is the first Alphabetical Jigsaw (AJ) which I recall seeing in the 3D Calendar. I enjoy them very much: they present a different sort of challenge, while obviously offering crucial help, in that one knows — more or less — the initial letter of each item.
Clues and Grid by Soup Enter the prize draw by 30 November. The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph showing a meal of alphabetti spaghetti on toast. This puzzle uses a modified 7x5x5 grid by Soup in which the central 7-letter entries have been extended to 9 letters. Clues are given in… Read more Hints & Tips November 2023
Clues and Grid by Soup Theme: Hedley Verity – Ten Wickets for Ten Runs The winner of the July puzzle is Dannish Babar of Derby. Review of the July 2022 3D crossword Quite a poignant photograph this month: while it may indicate ‘stump’, for me there is the thought of one cut down in his… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – July 2022
Clues and Grid by Soup I apologise for the late arrival of these hints and tips. Normal service should be resumed next month. The background to this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph of a tree stump. This very cleverly designed grid celebrates the 90th anniversary of a unique sporting achievement by a Yorkshireman. The… Read more Hints & Tips July 2022
