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Space mini crosswords

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

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What is inside the Space theme

Add up every clue in the theme and you get 384. The themed answers number 111, running from 3 to 6 letters long, with 2 to 5 of them in any one puzzle.

All 35 Space puzzles

Puzzle by puzzle, with a taste of the clues. Nothing here gives away an answer or a grid.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Star chart” and “Line a planet turns around”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Curved path across the sky” and “___ moon, the invisible phase”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cargo ___ on a shuttle” and “Frozen water in a comet”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Beam of light” and “Being from another world”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Orbiting research module” and “Curved glass in a telescope”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Craft sent out to explore” and “Model of a world”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “A long way off, like Pluto” and “Bouncing beam that measures distance”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Ring of light” and “Dwarf planet far out there”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ space, far beyond the planets” and “People aboard a spacecraft”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Hot middle of a planet” and “Twinkler at night”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ Earth orbit” and “Round heavenly body”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ giant, like Jupiter” and “Satellite navigation system”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “One spin of the planet” and “Launch ___”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “North or south end of a world” and “The universe as a whole”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Why a planet has seasons” and “Turn on an axis”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ speed, in science fiction” and “Tight beam of light”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sudden burst from the sun” and “Color of Mars”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where the stars come out” and “Travel through the air”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Flying saucer, for short” and “Path around a planet”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Icy visitor with a tail” and “Frozen water in a comet”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Astronomer's viewing tube, informally” and “Having to do with the sun”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Barely shining” and “Stream of matter shot from a black hole”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Roof of an observatory” and “Stabilizer on a rocket's body”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “The final frontier” and “Star we orbit”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Oort ___, home of the comets” and “Curved path across the sky”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Latin name for our star” and “Satellite navigation system”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Second planet from the sun” and “Color of Mars”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Nothing travels faster” and “Container for rocket propellant”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Saturn's biggest moon” and “___ Earth orbit”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Saturn has thousands of them” and “___ cone, the pointed tip”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Shooting star” and “Satellite navigation system”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Satellite navigation system” and “Curved path across the sky”

More Space clues to try

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

  • “Crew compartment that returns home”
  • “Red ___, a swollen star”
  • “When you can see the stars”
  • “Fourth rock from the sun”
  • “Shaft of light”
  • “Largest planet”

Finding Space on the theme shelf

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

Rules, the timer and the streak are in How to play Theme Minis.

Themes near Space

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