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Birds mini crosswords

Looking for birds crosswords with a short grid? Theme Minis has 35 of them, 18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6, written around one subject and filed under water and shore.

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Counting the Birds puzzles

Themed answers make up 102 of the 384 clues in this theme, and they come 2 to 4 to a puzzle. The shortest is 3 letters, the longest 6, and the word list behind them has 104 entries.

All 35 Birds puzzles

Below are the puzzles in order. A pair of clues from each gives you a sense of how birds is handled; solving them is up to you.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “How a sparrow gets around” and “What a hawk is famed for”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Male swan” and “Where a bird rests”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hooked claw of a hunter” and “Twig cradle for eggs”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Tropical bird with a huge bill” and “Slim seabird of the coast”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Red-breasted garden bird” and “Female swan”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Take to the air” and “Glide high without flapping”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Dove's soft sound” and “Where you see exotic birds”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Crow's bigger cousin” and “Big colorful parrot”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What is laid in the nest” and “Fatty winter bird food”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Tuft on a bird's head” and “Crow's harsh call”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Group of birds together” and “Take to the air”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Long part on a stork” and “Beat the wings”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Big black cawing bird” and “Symbol of peace”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sharp toe tip” and “Hooting night hunter”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Stubby black-and-white seabird of the north” and “Male duck”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Where they soar” and “Songbird that rises early”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Patch of color on a bird's chest” and “Bird's mouth part”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Plunge for a fish” and “Feathered flier”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tidy the feathers with the beak” and “Little bird's note”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “A thrush's tune” and “Wader with a long curved bill”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a swallow builds with” and “What wings push against”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Long-necked white waterbird” and “Walk in the shallows, as a heron does”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Long-legged pond wader” and “What fills the feeder”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Large cage you can walk into” and “Crow's bigger cousin”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “White wading bird” and “Sound a chick makes inside the egg”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Noisy blue relative of the crow” and “Black waterbird with a white forehead”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “A hen's young ones” and “Long part on a stork”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Marsh bird with a very long bill” and “Tiny brown bird with a cocked tail”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Gull's cry” and “Twig cradle for eggs”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Part of a bird's foot” and “Big gobbling farmyard bird”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where birds settle for the night” and “Twig cradle for eggs”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Tall bird said to bring babies” and “Long-legged pond wader”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues

A few more clues from Birds

Six more clues from the Birds word list, without their answers:

  • “One piece of plumage”
  • “Bird that mimics speech”
  • “Bird with a fanned tail of eyes”
  • “Dark patch on a bird's crown”
  • “Male turkey”
  • “A bird's sound”

Play Birds in Theme Minis

From the Theme Minis front page choose All the themes and tap the Birds card, which shows how many of its 35 puzzles you have solved. Page through the list, twelve puzzles to a page, and tap one to start. Check and Reveal word are there when you need them, at half a minute each.

Rules, the timer and the streak are in How to play Theme Minis.

Neighbours of Birds on the shelf

Browse every theme on one page, or look at the past Stepword ladders and Rewind branches.