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Sports mini crosswords

Sports is theme 26 of 29 in Theme Minis, filed under sport. It holds 35 small crosswords, 18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6, and every one of them leans on words from sport.

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The make-up of Sports

A puzzle here carries 10 to 12 clues, 384 in all. Of those answers, 106 are on-subject words (3 to 6 letters), picked from a list of 98; the others are plain fill.

Every Sports puzzle, numbered

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.

Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Metal-headed golf club” and “Wooden club for a slugger”
Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Bad news for a batter” and “What the ball goes over or into”
Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Baseball stat for driving a runner home” and “Score in baseball, or a jog on a track”
Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “High soft shot over the net” and “Slide down the slope”
Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Serve that cannot be returned” and “The running tally”
Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “The keeper's stop” and “Safe swing in baseball”
Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Your kit and equipment” and “Big indoor venue”
Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What the champion holds” and “The team you love to beat”
Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Result where neither side takes it” and “Come out on top”
Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “One whole contest” and “Player who guards the net”
Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Surface for basketball or tennis” and “Peg that holds a golf ball up”
Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Driver or wedge” and “Race with a handoff”
Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Indoor place to work out” and “Touch a runner with the ball”
Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Whistle-blower on the court, for short” and “One who draws up the plays”
Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Expected number of strokes on a hole” and “Bowling target, or a wrestling win”
Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Net you aim at, or a point scored” and “Head-first entry off the board”
Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Stud on the bottom of a boot” and “Grass where football is played”
Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Padded surface for tumbling” and “Boot with a blade for the ice”
Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Part of the book the officials enforce” and “Contest of pure speed”
Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Pole ___, or a gymnast's leap” and “Boxing match”
Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “First or second, in a soccer game” and “Safe swing in baseball”
Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Unit of a tennis match” and “One of nine in a ball game”
Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “How new players are picked up” and “Whistle-blower on the court, for short”
Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Your own strip of the pool or track” and “One time around the track”
Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where swimmers do laps” and “Season's best player, in brief”
Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Attempt on the goal” and “Boot the ball”
Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Pull the oars in a boat race” and “Three minutes in the boxing ring”
Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Prize the champion wears” and “Gentle stroke on the green”
Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What a cyclist races on” and “Round thing in most games”
Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Game of 18 holes” and “Send the ball to a teammate”
Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Ten of them make a first down” and “Plate the runner slides into”
Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Contest between two sides” and “Stick passed in a relay”
Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Leather catcher worn on the hand” and “Unit of a tennis match”

A few more clues from Sports

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

“Shiny thing the winners lift”
“Move through the water”
“One who calls balls and strikes”
“The official blows it”
“Sport played with sticks on ice”
“Big bowl full of fans”

Open the Sports theme in the game

On the front page of Theme Minis, All the themes takes you to the shelf. Sports is one of 29 cards there. Open it, pick a puzzle from the list (twelve to a page), and fill in the grid at your own speed.

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

If you like Sports, try these

Baseball mini crosswords: 35 puzzles.
Tools and the Workshop mini crosswords: 35 puzzles.
Weather mini crosswords: 35 puzzles.

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