Crossclimb · No. 852 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Crossclimb #852 Answer (Aug 30, 2026)
Top & bottom: The top + bottom rows = What NASA's Perseverance is, and what it photographed from Mars on October 4, 2025. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom.
- Top rung
- Mississippi or Nile, for example
- Scuba ___
- City in England with white cliffs
- Perform a new version of a song originally by another artist
- Have a strong desire for something that belongs to someone else
- Bottom rung
Hint: Solve the middle clues first; neighboring words differ by exactly one letter.
Show Crossclimb #852 answer as text
- The top + bottom rows = What NASA's Perseverance is, and what it photographed from Mars on October 4, 2025. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom. → ROVER
- Mississippi or Nile, for example → RIVER
- Scuba ___ → DIVER
- City in England with white cliffs → DOVER
- Perform a new version of a song originally by another artist → COVER
- Have a strong desire for something that belongs to someone else → COVET
- The top + bottom rows = What NASA's Perseverance is, and what it photographed from Mars on October 4, 2025. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom. → COMET
About Crossclimb #852
- Crossclimb #852 is a ladder of 7 5-letter words, each one letter away from the next.
- Listed alphabetically rather than in ladder order, the five middle clues are: "City in England with white cliffs"; "Have a strong desire for something that belongs to someone else"; "Mississippi or Nile, for example"; "Perform a new version of a song originally by another artist"; "Scuba ___".
- The shortest, "Scuba ___", runs 2 words against 11 for the longest.
- One is a fill-in-the-blank and one adds a qualifier after a comma, 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.