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A Fresh Point of View Crossword

A Fresh Point of View is a medium English-language crossword with 30 clues. A mixed Brain Boost with words, everyday knowledge and fresh connections

10 × 10 grid. Play free as a guest, with no download.

Opening your interactive crossword…

Across

  • 1. Vertical paths in a building designed for lifts or ventilation
  • 7. Bacterial illness associated with contaminated water
  • 8. Bowl of porridge often enjoyed with fruit
  • 9. Edge where a significant event or change might happen
  • 12. Cut open with a clean, narrow stroke
  • 13. Transparent optical pieces that focus or spread light
  • 15. A pig's enclosure, or a very untidy room figuratively
  • 16. Tells confidently to remove doubt
  • 18. Dishonest scheme to take someone's money
  • 19. Grows weary, or the rubber rings an American motorist checks
  • 23. Melody you can hum
  • 24. Recurring storytelling device or convention
  • 25. Bishop's jurisdiction
  • 26. Admit through a door (3,2)
  • 27. Act out a scene

Down

  • 1. Handheld percussion instrument rattled in rhythm
  • 2. Stolen, as goods, informally
  • 3. Charitable relief offered to the destitute
  • 4. Perceives by touch, or experiences an emotion
  • 5. Distinguishing characteristic
  • 6. Tasting like seawater
  • 7. To finish off by absorbing or using up completely
  • 9. Sharp verbal criticisms delivered with force
  • 10. Save from danger
  • 11. Wildly unreasonable, informally
  • 14. Make a home in a new place
  • 17. Device producing a loud warning wail
  • 20. Schedule showing whose turn it is
  • 21. Long narrative poem about heroic events
  • 22. Dispatched, whether as a parcel or an email

How to play

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