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The Ocean mini crosswords

Looking for the ocean 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 The Ocean puzzles

Themed answers make up 115 of the 384 clues in this theme, and they come 2 to 5 to a puzzle. The shortest is 3 letters, the longest 6, and the word list behind them has 105 entries.

The The Ocean puzzle list

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

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tiny shrimplike whale food” and “Noah's great boat”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “First ___, the captain's second” and “Harbor town, or the left side”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Person who goes down with a tank” and “Rowboat's paddle”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Fish in a sandwich” and “Chart of the coastline”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Snakelike swimmer” and “Ring-shaped coral island”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Ship's daily record” and “Hill of sand by the shore”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Big passenger ship” and “Walkway out over the water”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a berg is made of” and “___ tanker's cargo”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sleeping room aboard” and “Goods a ship carries”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Angler's pole” and “Quick swim”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Curved inlet of the coast” and “The ocean, briefly”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Reef builder” and “Back end of a ship”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Fish with many rows of teeth” and “Quay where ships load”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Beachcomber's find” and “Fish that sounds like a low voice”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sea mammal that floats on its back” and “Vast body of salt water”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a shark shows above the surface” and “Fisherman's mesh”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Flat fish, or the bottom of a shoe” and “Ship's steering station”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Triangular sail at the front” and “Distress call from a ship”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Group of whales” and “Body of a vessel”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Sand ___, shallow ridge offshore” and “Flat cargo boat”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Narrow boat moved by paddle” and “White froth on a breaker”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Like everything on deck in a storm” and “Biggest creature in the sea”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Narrow arm of the sea” and “Sailor's tie, or a unit of speed”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Flat fish with a whiplike tail” and “Where land meets sea”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Toward the back of a boat” and “Ride the breakers”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Stone arm built out into the water” and “Sand ___, shallow ridge offshore”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sheltered spot for ships” and “Toward the back of a boat”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Daily rise and fall of the sea” and “Small vessel”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Where boats tie up” and “Snakelike swimmer”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Lobster ___, baited cage” and “Snakelike swimmer”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Undersea craft, for short” and “What makes seawater taste”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Sandy strip by the water” and “Gem from an oyster”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Gray blanket over the water” and “Roller that breaks on the beach”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “People who sail a ship” and “Floor of a vessel”

More The Ocean clues to try

Clues only, from the The Ocean list:

  • “Sharp bend at the end of a line”
  • “What a sunbather gets”
  • “What swims in schools”
  • “Line aboard a boat”
  • “Ten-armed sea creature with ink”
  • “Paddled boat you sit inside”

Open the The Ocean theme in the game

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