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The darts crossword

A new darts crossword every Monday. This week's has 17 clues on the players, their nicknames and walk-ons, where the tournaments are played and the language of the game. Tap a square and type.

Crossword #3 · 12 Oct to 18 Oct 2026 0 of 0 points 0:00
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Across

  1. 2Points scored per three darts, the stat everyone quotes (7)
  2. 6World number ten on the PDC Order of Merit (surname) (8)
  3. 8The part of a dart that joins the barrel to the flight (4)
  4. 9How a player stands at the oche (6)
  5. 10Where the 2026 World Masters is played (6,6)
  6. 13Walks on to “Legendary” (surname) (8)
  7. 15It sits between 5 and 1 (6)
  8. 16“The Iceman” (surname) (5)

Down

  1. 1Win a leg when your opponent threw first (5)
  2. 3Darts, to the players (6)
  3. 4With the bull and double 20, the only double-start nine-darter openers (9)
  4. 5AnagramRITKCEC (darts) (7)
  5. 7Darts slang for a score of 95 (4,3)
  6. 8The wire web that divides the board into segments (6)
  7. 11Three darts, one turn (5)
  8. 12How a player holds the dart (4)
  9. 14The madhouse is double this (3)
A new crossword every Monday; the next one is out on Monday 16 November. Last week's crossword (#2) This week's crossword

How it works

Tap a square to choose it, and tap it again to switch between across and down. Type to fill in letters; the cursor moves along the word for you. The numbers in brackets are the word lengths, so (3,6) is two words. Your progress is saved on this device until next Monday.

Scoring. Every word you get right is a visit: 20 points a letter, up to a maximum 180, and it turns green. Stuck? Reveal letter fills in the square you are on and costs that letter's 20 points; Reveal word gives you the whole word for nothing. Check marks wrong letters for free. Finish with every point and no help for a nine-darter; after that come Big Fish, Ton-plus, Game shot, Bed and breakfast and Bust.

One clue each week is an anagram, marked with a red tag: rearrange the capital letters to get the answer, and the words after them are an ordinary clue to it as well.

Player answers are surnames as fans say them, so Michael van Gerwen is VANGERWEN (3,6). Rankings and walk-on songs are as they stood when the puzzle was set.

Read next

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