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.
2023
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Calluna Theme: Last of the Summer Wine pilot TV episode The winner of the January puzzle is Ray Gallantree of Chelmsford. Review of the January 2023 3D crossword A New Year, a new (and may I say beautiful) Calendar, and a welcome to new solvers with a puzzle by… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – January 2023
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Calluna The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph of a painting depicting some grapes and a glass of red wine. This puzzle by Vlad uses a conventional 7x5x5 grid by Calluna and the theme is the 50th anniversary of a first appearance. All clues are normal,… Read more Hints & Tips January 2023
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Aramis Theme: The Sunday Times newspaper The winner of the October puzzle is Julie Allen from Queensland. Review of the October 2022 3D crossword Vlad and Aramis have put forward a theme I knew virtually nothing about, with clues sufficiently difficult to force me into a second session before… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – October 2022
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Aramis The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph of a sunset over a stretch of water. This puzzle has clues by Vlad and a conventional 7x5x5 grid by Aramis. The puzzle marks the 200th anniversary of a publication. Vlad’s clever clues and Aramis’ elegant grid gradually… Read more Hints & Tips October 2022
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Gin. The winner of the July puzzle were Monica Jeffrey and Denise Brocklehurst of Weston under Wetherley.
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Gin The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph showing a mouth-watering pile of limes. This grid by Gin marks 58th and 70th anniversaries of important dates in the life of one of a famous (or rather notorious) group. His epithet appears in the yellow highlighted squares.… Read more Hints & Tips July 2021
