Woman solving a crossword
Grid
13 × 13 Maxi
Clues
58 9 themed
Average solve
22:49 741 solves
Rating
3.9 (22)
Published
13 Aug 2026 Fiction Thursday

The grid

Across

  • 1 Gel in a Petri dish (4)
  • 5 Forest animal (4)
  • 14 “Mutiny on the ___,” novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (6) · THEME

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Down

  • 1 On the ground, in ballet terms (1,5)
  • 2 Silver-rich lead sulfide (6)
  • 4 “The ___ of the Ancient Mariner,” poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (4) · THEME

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The word “yarn” for a long tale likely comes from sailors spinning threads (yarns) while mending nets.

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