CROSSWORD

Bread and Butter

Ancient Greeks used beans for secret ballots; revealing the beans could expose votes, so the phrase "Spill the beans" came to mean letting a secret slip.

Grid
13 × 13 Maxi
Clues
64 8 themed
Average solve
13:44 888 solves
Rating
4.4 (23)
Published
11 Aug 2026 Tasty Tuesday

Clues

  • 1a: Colony insects (4)
  • 5a: Indonesian pickle (4)
  • 9a: Sandwich filler (3)
  • 12a: ___ as a cucumber; staying very calm (4)
  • 13a: Michigan city (4)

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