Our sly puzzle experts curated these five crosswords for burgeoning cryptanalysts with holiday downtime.
Try your hand at our exclusive online crosswords, time yourself with our built-in clock, or play online with a friend. You can sign up for free to get SPYSCAPE crosswords automatically delivered to your inbox every Friday and - if you need a bit of help solving our puzzles - check our handy Crossword Tip Sheet.
1.) Secret Santa
Secret Santa: Click anywhere on the puzzle to reveal the clues.
Crossword cruciverbalist Bryant White's Secret Santa will bring out your inner Sherlock: A member of the Spy Club is operating as a Secret Santa! Who is it?
You’ll need to do some digital deciphering in order to solve Bryant White’s tricky puzzle. Here’s a clue: 007 has just destroyed SPECTRE's alpine stronghold and is skiing wildly downhill to safety!
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Our sly puzzle experts curated these five crosswords for burgeoning cryptanalysts with holiday downtime.
Try your hand at our exclusive online crosswords, time yourself with our built-in clock, or play online with a friend. You can sign up for free to get SPYSCAPE crosswords automatically delivered to your inbox every Friday and - if you need a bit of help solving our puzzles - check our handy Crossword Tip Sheet.
1.) Secret Santa
Secret Santa: Click anywhere on the puzzle to reveal the clues.
Crossword cruciverbalist Bryant White's Secret Santa will bring out your inner Sherlock: A member of the Spy Club is operating as a Secret Santa! Who is it?
You’ll need to do some digital deciphering in order to solve Bryant White’s tricky puzzle. Here’s a clue: 007 has just destroyed SPECTRE's alpine stronghold and is skiing wildly downhill to safety!
Humbug: Click anywhere on the puzzle to reveal the clues.
You’ll also be challenged to decipher puzzle constructor Bryant White‘s Humbug. A KAOS scientist codenamed The Queen is weaponizing bees inside the Hive - her secret laboratory! A CONTROL operative has been assigned to foil KAOS' evil plans!
4) Gamesmanship
Gamesmanship: Click anywhere on the puzzle to reveal the clues.
By now you can probably decipher the theme of Gamesmanship, so get ready to spend the night in! Can you solve this fiendishly difficult puzzle? Puzzle setter Martin Long was raised in London on cryptic crosswords and le Carré novels but recently defected to American-style crosswords and Homeland episodes.
5) Mixed Drinks
Mixed Drinks: Click anywhere on the puzzle to reveal the clues.
If you are still up for a challenge, try to unravel puzzle constructor Emma Lawson's Mixed Drinks. You didn’t really think SPYSCAPE would go easy on you, did you?
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