Crossword Master Puzzles 401–500
1,886 clues across 100 puzzles, averaging 18.9 per board — in line with the game average of 18.6.
Puzzles 401–500 — Answer Index
This page indexes every Crossword Master puzzle from puzzle 401 through puzzle 500 — 100 boards holding 1,886 clues between them. Each card below shows how many clues that puzzle asks for, so you can see what you are walking into before opening it.
The block averages 18.9 clues per puzzle, in line with the game-wide average of 18.6. The densest board here is puzzle 402 with 21 clues; the lightest is puzzle 469 with 15. Across the whole game the spread runs from 8 to 22 clues per puzzle.
Answers in Crossword Master are short — 3.5 letters on average — and clue text is reused across boards, so 2,496 of the game’s 15,718 distinct clues have more than one possible answer. Each puzzle page flags those, so you always get the answer for the board you are on. Move to the previous block or next block, or open the full block index.
100 Puzzles in This Block
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How this block compares
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Puzzles | 100 |
| Total clues | 1,886 |
| Average per puzzle | 18.9 (game average 18.6) |
| Most clues | 21 — Puzzle 402 |
| Fewest clues | 15 — Puzzle 469 |
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3 Tips for Puzzles 401–500
Work the block in order
These 100 puzzles average 18.9 clues each, which is in line with the game average of 18.6. The lightest board here is puzzle 469 at 15 clues and the heaviest is puzzle 402 at 21. Crossword Master ramps gradually, so playing a block in sequence keeps the clue style familiar as the grids grow.
Let the crossings do the work
Every answer in this block shares letters with at least two others. When a clue will not come, fill the ones around it first — two or three confirmed crossing letters usually reduce a stubborn clue to a single possibility. That habit matters more here than raw vocabulary.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify puzzles 401–500
All 1,886 clues in this block are read from the puzzle files themselves. Answers are length-checked against their grid slots before the index publishes, and puzzle numbering is confirmed sequential, so a gap in the table would mean a genuinely missing puzzle rather than a scrape that quietly failed.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
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How to Solve a Crossword Master Puzzle
The order that clears a crossword fastest, whatever the theme.
Start with the fills you are certain of
Short answers with common letter patterns anchor the grid. Every letter one of them places is a free constraint on the crossing clues, which is why the grid opens up far faster from the easy corners than from the clue you are stuck on.
Use the crossings, not the clue
When a clue will not give, stop reading it and look at what crosses it. Two or three confirmed letters usually reduce the answer to one candidate, and that is quicker than re-reading a clue you have already failed to solve.
Let the theme carry the long answers
The long entries usually share a theme, so once one of them falls the others follow the same pattern. Solve a long answer and re-read the other long clues immediately — they are rarely independent.