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Colors and Shapes mini crosswords

The Colors and Shapes shelf in Theme Minis is 35 puzzles deep (18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6) and sits with the town and work themes. Every puzzle is small enough to finish in a short break.

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What is inside the Colors and Shapes theme

Add up every clue in the theme and you get 384. The themed answers number 104, running from 3 to 6 letters long, with 2 to 4 of them in any one puzzle.

All 35 Colors and Shapes puzzles

Here is the full run, in the game’s own order. A couple of each puzzle’s themed clues are quoted, without their answers; puzzles that may be a daily mini soon are shown without clues.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What gives fabric its color” and “Smooth bend with no corners”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Black writing fluid” and “Pointed end of a cone”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Long thin straight shape” and “Three-dimensional, not flat”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Pinkish orange named for a reef” and “Curved piece of a circle”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Four-sided shape that flies on a string” and “Five-pointed shape”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Dull green of army clothing” and “Color of a stop sign”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Ball-shaped object” and “Bluish purple at the end of the rainbow”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where two faces of a solid meet” and “Curved shape over a doorway”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Soft orange-pink” and “Pale gray, like fireplace leftovers”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ green, a shade of the ocean” and “How a jeweler shapes a stone”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Washed out, as a color” and “Where two faces of a solid meet”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Muted purple-pink” and “Very dark blue”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___shell, an off-white” and “Faceted cut stone”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Shortest path between two points” and “Bright yellow-green”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Perfectly round solid” and “Pale gray, like fireplace leftovers”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “One flat side of a cube” and “Two-dimensional, not solid”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Rectangle on a chart” and “Warm orange-yellow of the middle light”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Line straight across a grid” and “Color of fresh grass”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Two lines meeting at right angles” and “Round mark of another color”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Circle with a hole in the middle” and “Soft pink named for a flower”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Deep blue-violet of old denim” and “___ green, a shade of the ocean”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Light shade of brown” and “What gives fabric its color”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Orange-brown of old iron” and “Watery light blue”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___zag, a sharp back and forth” and “___ chart, a circle divided into wedges”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “A color with black mixed in” and “Pale gray, like fireplace leftovers”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “A triangle has three” and “Pale purple named for a shrub”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Pale yellowish white” and “Curved piece of a circle”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Color of a traffic cone” and “Circle with a hole in the middle”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Outer edge of a circle” and “Color of new snow”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Darkest of them all” and “Dot with no size at all”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues

Sample Colors and Shapes clues

Six more clues from the Colors and Shapes word list, without their answers:

  • “Tilted square shape on a playing card”
  • “Another word for a shade”
  • “Six-sided solid, like a die”
  • “Four equal sides and four right angles”
  • “Curve winding out from a center”
  • “Flat round shape”

Play Colors and Shapes in Theme Minis

Pressing All the themes in Theme Minis lists every theme with a progress bar; choose Colors and Shapes to see its 35 puzzles, twelve per page. A Check or a Reveal word costs half a minute on the board.

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

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