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The Garden mini crosswords

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

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What is inside the The Garden theme

Add up every clue in the theme and you get 384. The themed answers number 101, running from 3 to 6 letters long, with 2 to 4 of them in any one puzzle.

All 35 The Garden puzzles

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: “Prickle on a rose” and “Plant by scattering”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Earth you plant in” and “Digging tool with a flat blade”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Star-shaped autumn flower” and “Shade plant with broad leaves”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Flower with a little face” and “Boundary of pickets”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Underground part of a plant” and “Oak's seed”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What the swing hangs from” and “Curved frame for a climbing rose”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where the tools live” and “New green growth”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Rich, crumbly earth” and “Put a seedling in the ground”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Walkway between the beds” and “Living green wall”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Little marcher in the soil” and “Plot where you grow things”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Big tree from an acorn” and “Container for a plant”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Buzzing pollinator” and “Thorny flower of romance”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Strip of grass with roots” and “Tool for chopping weeds”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Tall flower named for a rainbow” and “Small thin branch”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tree's lifeblood” and “Dark evergreen used for hedges”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Harvest the berries” and “Dark earth cut from a bog”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Flower before it opens” and “Morning wet on the lawn”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Yellow dust bees carry” and “Cup-shaped spring flower”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Tall shade tree” and “What a bud becomes”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cut back a shrub” and “Tree's lifeblood”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Unwanted plant” and “What the hose delivers”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Climbing green vegetable” and “Big, full pink bloom”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “White flower with a yellow eye” and “Bark chips spread on a bed”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Shaded seat with a leafy frame” and “What the swing hangs from”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Long tube for watering” and “Tool for chopping weeds”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Small juicy fruit” and “Dark evergreen used for hedges”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Patch of ground you tend” and “Little bearded lawn statue”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What the lawn is made of” and “Shade plant with broad leaves”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Fragrant purple spring shrub” and “Planted patch”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Curved frame for a climbing rose” and “Shaded seat with a leafy frame”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Way into the garden” and “What a seed does”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “One part of a blossom” and “Tree's lifeblood”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tool with tines for turning earth” and “Boundary of pickets”

More The Garden clues to try

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

  • “Insect on the leaves”
  • “Garden ground”
  • “Cut back the hedge”
  • “Mown patch of grass”
  • “Gathering of the crops”
  • “Trumpet-shaped pond flower”

Finding The Garden on the theme shelf

Pressing All the themes in Theme Minis lists every theme with a progress bar; choose The Garden 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.

If you like The Garden, try these

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