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 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
Each 2023 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.
2023 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 2023 3D Crosswords World Championship. If you have been entering the monthly competitions, you can check your progress towards the tie-break qualification.
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
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.
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.
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
2021 puzzles
Happy New Year solvers! The 2021 3D crossword puzzles will be made available progressively throughout the year. 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 and tips for each puzzle will be published sometime in the middle of each month. Subscribe to the Hints & Tips newsletter to receive them by email.
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 2021 3D Crosswords World Championship. If you have been entering the monthly competitions, you can check your progress towards the tie-break qualification.
You are invited to vote for your favourite puzzle of the year from the 13 puzzles featured in the Calendar (the extra puzzle was Sirius and Enigmatist’s tribute to Araucaria) plus the August 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.
