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Halloween mini crosswords

Looking for halloween 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 seasons and holidays.

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Counting the Halloween puzzles

Themed answers make up 93 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.

The Halloween puzzle list

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

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Enough to make you jump” and “Marked plot in the cemetery”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Warm autumn apple drink” and “Small lizardlike creature in a potion”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Gloomy and forbidding” and “Strangely unsettling”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Creepy stone vase” and “All Hallows' ___”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a ghost does to a house” and “Hooting night bird”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Black ___, a spooky omen” and “Red costume with a pitchfork”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Spider's sticky trap” and “What a witch rides”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Give a fright” and “___web, dusty strands in a corner”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What you carry the candy in” and “What seems to follow you in an old portrait”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Mischievous little devil” and “Magic words”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a scary story brings” and “Strangely unsettling”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Warty helper of a witch” and “Like the night”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What bubbles in the cauldron” and “Squeaky critter in a haunted house”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Misty marsh” and “Trick-or-treat haul”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Magic stick” and “Long ghostly cry”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Pumpkin ___” and “Rusty entrance to the graveyard”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ or treat” and “Bump on a witch's nose”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What a ghost says” and “Bag of collected sweets”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What clicks on an old gate” and “What the witch works”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What creaks open on its own” and “Poe's croaking black bird”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Handout at the door” and “Candy ___, orange and white treat”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Giving you the shivers” and “Black bird in a bare tree”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a jack-o-lantern does” and “Sense of trouble coming”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What rattles the shutters” and “Wolf's cry at the full moon”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Point on a devil's head” and “Wolf's cry at the full moon”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What a werewolf grows” and “Face cover for a costume”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Costume with a red nose” and “Black ___, a spooky omen”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Eight-legged web spinner” and “Warm autumn apple drink”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bad wish put on someone” and “Strangely unsettling”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Wax light that flickers” and “Trick-or-treat haul”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Low mist that rolls in” and “Creepy stone vase”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Vampire's pointy tooth” and “Warty helper of a witch”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Creepy crawler” and “Creepy stone vase”

More Halloween clues to try

Clues only, from the Halloween list:

  • “Monster's foot”
  • “Full one over the graveyard”
  • “Where bats sleep by day”
  • “Like a ghostly draft”
  • “Pointy-hatted man of magic”
  • “Month of the big night”

Open the Halloween theme in the game

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

The Theme Minis guide covers the clock and the streak.

If you like Halloween, try these

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