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Winter mini crosswords

Looking for winter 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 seasons and holidays.

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Counting the Winter puzzles

Themed answers make up 102 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.

All 35 Winter puzzles

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: “Heavy hooded coat” and “Knit head cover”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Hot chocolate” and “Song sung door to door”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Ice pellets from the sky” and “Hot mug with a bag”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Wet, dirty snow” and “Needled tree”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Shape you make in the snow” and “Christmas, in carols”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “How it is by five o'clock” and “Thick wool foot cover”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hand cover with fingers” and “It burns in the fireplace”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Hand warmer with no fingers” and “Frozen water”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Groomed hill at the resort” and “Antlered animals pull the sleigh”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Topper on the tree” and “Gray overhead in December”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “One heading down the mountain” and “Snowy downhill sport”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Maple stuff collected late in the season” and “It crackles in the hearth”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Christmas tree evergreen” and “Slippery, like the sidewalk”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Gray haze on a cold morning” and “Pile of snow blown by the wind”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “It bites your cheeks” and “Frozen water”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Turn to water” and “Tool for clearing the walk”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bite in the air” and “Egg___”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sudden blast of wind” and “White stuff that falls”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Santa's helper” and “Bite in the air”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “How the fire keeps you” and “It gets decorated in December”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Wool beanie” and “Small shelter out on the ice”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Dome built from snow blocks” and “Place to warm up at the resort”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bug that goes around in cold months” and “Warm animal coat”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Heavy outer layer” and “Color of a snowy field”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “It sets early this season” and “Santa's helper”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Neck wrap” and “Runners for a hill”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “It is spread on icy roads” and “Hot bowl to warm up”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Warm spiced apple drink” and “Wool beanie”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Big weather event” and “White coating on the window”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Damp and bitterly cold” and “Large animal that bugles in the cold”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ log” and “Red-suited gift giver”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What a melting icicle does” and “Red-berried decoration”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cozy log getaway” and “Heavy outer layer”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Warm spell that melts the snow” and “Thumbed hand warmer”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “One bit of snow” and “It bites your cheeks”

A few more clues from Winter

Six more clues from the Winter word list, without their answers:

  • “Sheep's warm fiber”
  • “How the cocoa should be”
  • “First month of the year”
  • “Where the smoke goes up”
  • “Cold feeling that runs through you”
  • “Wrapped present”

Play Winter in Theme Minis

The front page of Theme Minis has a button for the themes; Winter 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 Winter

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