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The Next Connection Crossword

The Next Connection 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.

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Across

  • 1. Graduate, for short
  • 5. Safety devices that melt to break an overloaded circuit
  • 10. Manner of expression that can sound sarcastic
  • 11. Together and in agreement (2,3)
  • 12. Put into spoken words
  • 13. Distributed the playing cards
  • 14. Lure with the promise of a reward
  • 16. Informer who betrays associates, informally
  • 17. Analyze the mineral content of an ore
  • 18. Female child
  • 19. Alter or replace a current state
  • 21. Grown feathers and ready for flight
  • 22. Looking at with interest
  • 24. Spring back after hitting a surface
  • 25. Plan for expected income and intended spending

Down

  • 1. On the ocean, or thoroughly confused (2,3)
  • 2. Sums of money that must be repaid
  • 3. Individual components of a whole
  • 4. Communication channels such as newspapers, radio and television
  • 5. Gradually lose clarity or color
  • 6. Practical benefit or purpose
  • 7. Taking to the sky with grace
  • 8. Magnify the scale of an image
  • 9. Became stable in a new home
  • 15. Moving through a repeating sequence
  • 18. Little device with a particular trick
  • 20. From this place, or for this reason
  • 21. A long-running quarrel extending beyond one argument
  • 22. A tide heading out
  • 23. English pronoun addressing one person or several

How to play

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