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Ducks & Poultry mini crosswords

The Ducks & Poultry shelf in Theme Minis is 35 puzzles deep (18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6) and sits with the water and shore themes. Every puzzle is small enough to finish in a short break.

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What is inside the Ducks & Poultry theme

Add up every clue in the theme and you get 384. The themed answers number 92, running from 3 to 6 letters long, with 2 to 4 of them in any one puzzle.

Every Ducks & Poultry puzzle, numbered

Numbers follow the order on the theme shelf. Clues are quoted so you can see the flavour of each puzzle, and the answers and grids stay inside the game.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Soft feathers under the outer ones” and “Wooden platform on the pond”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Poultry feed” and “Female duck, or female chicken”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Big French duck breed with mallard coloring” and “Female duck, or female chicken”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sharp growth on a rooster's leg” and “What a duck spreads on its feathers to stay dry”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Dip up and down on the water” and “Preen ___, the oil source on a duck's tail”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Great blue ___, a pond wader” and “Big white duck breed that came from China”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a hen lays” and “What a duck spreads on its feathers to stay dry”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Preen ___, the oil source on a duck's tail” and “What a duck spreads on its feathers to stay dry”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “White wading bird” and “Wriggly garden snack for a duck”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Pond neighbor that croaks” and “Diving bird with a haunting call”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Dip up and down on the water” and “Preen ___, the oil source on a duck's tail”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Go under for food, as a scaup does” and “When roosters crow”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bird's resting spot” and “Green pond growth”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Cracked ___, common poultry feed” and “Bird's claw”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hunter's hiding spot” and “Dip up and down on the water”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Black duck breed with a green sheen, named for a New York lake” and “Red crest on a rooster's head”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tall pond grass” and “___ duck, stiff-tailed diver with a blue bill”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “‘The ___ Duckling’, Hans Christian Andersen tale” and “Big wing feather once used as a pen”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where birds settle for the night” and “Female duck, or female chicken”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Grain given to poultry” and “Group of birds”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ duck, politician on the way out” and “Long-necked white pond bird”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Walk like a duck” and “Ripples trailing a swimming duck”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cross the pond” and “Long-necked white pond bird”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Where eggs are laid” and “Black-and-white patched duck breed named for an Italian port”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Dip up and down on the water” and “Hunter's hiding spot”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sea duck prized for its down” and “Female duck, or female chicken”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a duck spreads on its feathers to stay dry” and “Female duck, or female chicken”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Group of ducks floating together” and “Tall pond grass”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Pond's edge” and “Sharp growth on a rooster's leg”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Male duck” and “Ripples trailing a swimming duck”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Rooster's morning call” and “Female duck, or female chicken”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues

More Ducks & Poultry clues to try

Here are six clues the theme draws on; try to guess the answers before you play:

  • “Tiny, loud bantam duck breed”
  • “Duck with a bumpy red face”
  • “What a bird flaps”
  • “Duck's call”
  • “Green treat ducks love”
  • “Wetland home for waterfowl”

Finding Ducks & Poultry on the theme shelf

From the Theme Minis front page choose All the themes and tap the Ducks & Poultry 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.

The Theme Minis guide covers the clock and the streak.

Neighbours of Ducks & Poultry on the shelf

All 29 themes are on the Theme Minis topics page. For a different daily game, see the Rewind trivia branches or the Stepword ladders.