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Tools and the Workshop mini crosswords

Looking for tools and the workshop 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 town and work.

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Counting the Tools and the Workshop puzzles

Themed answers make up 100 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 100 entries.

Every Tools and the Workshop puzzle, numbered

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

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Toothed wheel” and “Blacksmith's heavy block”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Container of paint” and “Divide with a blade”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Loop that drives a sander” and “Wood splitter”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tool that cuts inside threads” and “Pointed end”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Hammer's nail puller” and “Blade struck with a mallet”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Lever something loose” and “Sharp side of a blade”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Pointed tool for making holes” and “What the saw cuts through”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Coarse wood file” and “Tool that cuts a decorative edge”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tool that shaves a thin curl of wood” and “___ nut on a wheel”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Hammer target” and “Small metal fastener”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Long, thin metal bar” and “Flat piece of lumber”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Guide that keeps a cut straight” and “Where two pieces meet”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Board on brackets” and “Cutting part of a saw”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Machine that spins wood for turning” and “Support that stiffens a joint”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “It stops a hinge squeaking” and “Handle you hold”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Measure of thickness” and “Cloth for wiping up spills”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Thick, long board” and “Drawing to build from”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Round wooden rod for joints” and “Container of paint”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Small piece knocked off” and “Nail driver”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Pattern of lines in wood” and “Coarse wood file”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Wood adhesive” and “It squeezes a glue joint tight”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Tool with a bubble” and “Pointed tool for making holes”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Work surface in the shop” and “Twelve of them in a foot”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Two-part strong glue” and “___ compressor”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Upright framing timber” and “Jaws that hold a drill bit”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bench clamp that holds the work” and “Angled corner cut”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Measuring ___” and “Tool that cuts inside threads”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cutter with teeth” and “Matched group of wrenches”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Power tool that smooths” and “Cloth for wiping up spills”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Thick, long board” and “Small metal fastener”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “End of a power cord” and “Soft, cheap lumber”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Plumbing tube” and “Drawing to build from”

More Tools and the Workshop clues to try

Clues only, from the Tools and the Workshop list:

  • “Drill a hole”
  • “Metal case with a lift-out tray”
  • “Workroom”
  • “Lifter for a car”
  • “Electrical strand”
  • “Drill tip”

Open the Tools and the Workshop theme in the game

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

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Themes near Tools and the Workshop

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