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Weather mini crosswords

Looking for weather 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 garden and outdoors.

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Counting the Weather puzzles

Themed answers make up 105 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 105 entries.

The Weather puzzle list

Here is the full run, in the game’s own order. A couple of each puzzle’s themed clues are quoted, without their answers; puzzles that may be a daily mini soon are shown without clues.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Where the clouds are” and “Get thoroughly wet”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “One burst of thunder” and “Like a July afternoon”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Like a bright cloudless day” and “Like a blustery day”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Very dry, as a desert” and “Sheltered side, away from the wind”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Ice ___, polar sheet” and “Turn from ice to water”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Woolly head cover for cold days” and “Sticky with moisture”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Snow day ride” and “___ sky at night, sailors' delight”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Neck wrap for cold days” and “Shape of a rainbow”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Without a drop for weeks” and “Sudden burst of lightning”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Winter outer layer” and “Slippery glaze on the road”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Spike hanging from a cold gutter” and “Morning drops on the grass”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “White coating on a cold morning” and “Soaked through”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Cooling device for hot days” and “___ stream, high wind aloft”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Calm center of a hurricane” and “___ breeze, cool air off the water”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Hot and sticky” and “Rain very hard”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Like trees in January” and “Color of a rainy sky”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Like a white winter day” and “What the wind does”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hand cover in winter” and “Pressure system that brings storms”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Very strong blow” and “Too much water on the ground”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Heavy hooded winter coat” and “Bite of cold in the air”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Slightly wet” and “Very dry, as a desert”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cold and damp” and “Without a cloud”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “White puff in the sky” and “Slippery glaze on the road”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Sound of a big storm” and “Like a wet day”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Shaft of sunlight” and “Streak of lightning”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hard to see through” and “Thick mist that hides the road”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Water falling from clouds” and “Cold in the air”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Rain and ice mixed” and “Half-melted snow on the street”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Pile of wind-blown snow” and “Without a drop for weeks”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What the wind does round the house” and “Not bright, as a winter afternoon”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Wind and rain together” and “Boundary between two air masses”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Nicely heated” and “Where the clouds are”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues

More Weather clues to try

Clues only, from the Weather list:

  • “What a summer wave brings”
  • “One piece of falling snow”
  • “Fine floating droplets”
  • “Thoroughly saturated”
  • “Wind speed units, for short”
  • “Cold ___, a brief freeze”

Open the Weather theme in the game

From the Theme Minis front page choose All the themes and tap the Weather card, which shows how many of its 35 puzzles you have solved. Page through the list, twelve puzzles to a page, and tap one to start. Check and Reveal word are there when you need them, at half a minute each.

Need the rules first? Read how to play.

Neighbours of Weather on the shelf

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