Crossclimb · No. 820 · Wednesday edition
LinkedIn Crossclimb #820 Answer (Jul 29, 2026)
Top & bottom: The top + bottom rows = A compound word for a narrow walkway used by pedestrians and not vehicles. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom.
- Top rung
- Type of shoe that extends up the lower leg to offer more protection
- Protesting sounds heard after a controversial sports call
- Software programs that crawl the web to analyze web pages
- Best of ___ worlds (enjoy two things simultaneously)
- Relaxing soak in a tub
- Bottom rung
Hint: Solve the middle clues first; neighboring words differ by exactly one letter.
Show Crossclimb #820 answer as text
- The top + bottom rows = A compound word for a narrow walkway used by pedestrians and not vehicles. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom. → FOOT
- Type of shoe that extends up the lower leg to offer more protection → BOOT
- Protesting sounds heard after a controversial sports call → BOOS
- Software programs that crawl the web to analyze web pages → BOTS
- Best of ___ worlds (enjoy two things simultaneously) → BOTH
- Relaxing soak in a tub → BATH
- The top + bottom rows = A compound word for a narrow walkway used by pedestrians and not vehicles. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom. → PATH
About Crossclimb #820
- Crossclimb #820 is a ladder of 7 4-letter words, each one letter away from the next.
- Listed alphabetically rather than in ladder order, the five middle clues are: "Best of ___ worlds (enjoy two things simultaneously)"; "Protesting sounds heard after a controversial sports call"; "Relaxing soak in a tub"; "Software programs that crawl the web to analyze web pages"; "Type of shoe that extends up the lower leg to offer more protection".
- The shortest, "Relaxing soak in a tub", runs 5 words against 13 for the longest.
- One is a fill-in-the-blank, and clues like that are usually the fastest to pin down.
- Settle the middle five before touching the top and bottom rungs: those two share one combined clue that opens only once the middle is in ladder order.