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Long Island mini crosswords

Looking for long island 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 Long Island 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 102 entries.

All 35 Long Island puzzles

The puzzles are numbered in the order the game lists them. Where a puzzle is not one of the coming daily minis, two of its themed clues are printed beside it. Answers and grids are not shown.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Robert ___, master builder of the parkways” and “Corner shop for a breakfast sandwich”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ Park, or the animal in East End woods” and “Hale who landed at Huntington on his 1776 mission”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Culper ___ Ring” and “Great South ___”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ casting at Montauk” and “Sandy hill behind the beach”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Superstorm that hit the island in 2012” and “___ Beach, state park on the South Shore”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ Arena, Elmont home of the Islanders” and “North Fork product”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Montauk Point ___, built in 1796” and “Queens baseball team”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Town that is home to MacArthur Airport” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “The ___ Duck, roadside landmark in Flanders” and “___ Island, car-free barrier beach”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Seinfeld, who grew up in Massapequa” and “Boat to Shelter Island or Connecticut”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Levittown house style with a steep roof” and “Long Island breakfast staple”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ Harbor, former whaling port” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ Jefferson or ___ Washington” and “Cold Spring or Sag ___”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Roosevelt of Sagamore Hill, familiarly” and “___ Arena, Elmont home of the Islanders”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “The Islanders, to fans” and “Chrome-and-neon eatery found all over the island”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Great South Bay shellfish” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bethpage ___, U.S. Open golf course” and “___ Field, Mets' home”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ Station, LIRR's Midtown terminal” and “Long Island ___, the water to the north”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “The ___ Duck, roadside landmark in Flanders” and “Great South ___”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Commuter railroad, initially” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “The ___ Duck, roadside landmark in Flanders” and “Great South ___”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ City, Nassau village” and “Point at the tip of the North Fork”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ Harbor, former whaling port” and “Culper ___ Ring”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ Beach, city on a barrier island” and “___ Spring Harbor”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Great South ___” and “The ___ Duck, roadside landmark in Flanders”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ Island, former animal-disease lab site” and “The ___ Coast, North Shore mansion country”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Great South ___” and “The ___ Duck, roadside landmark in Flanders”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “The Islanders, to fans” and “Town that is home to MacArthur Airport”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ module, built in Bethpage” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What the South Shore faces” and “___ Sound Ferry, Orient Point to New London”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Great South ___” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Poet Whitman, born in West Hills” and “Billy, the Piano Man of Long Island”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Great South ___” and “The Long Island Expressway, initially”

Sample Long Island clues

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

  • “Peconic Bay shellfish”
  • “___brook Parkway”
  • “Bethpage company that built the lunar module”
  • “Lyme-carrying pest common in Suffolk”
  • “___ Moses, parkway and beach namesake”
  • “New York City borough at the island's west end”

Finding Long Island on the theme shelf

The front page of Theme Minis has a button for the themes; Long Island is among them. Open it and the puzzles are shown a dozen at a time.

Need the rules first? Read how to play.

Themes near Long Island

The full theme list has the rest. Prefer a quiz? Try Rewind; prefer words? See Stepword.