# MG Mini — Mangesh Ghogre's Indian Mini Crossword

> Daily 5-minute mini crosswords with an Indian sensibility — Bollywood, cricket, Hinglish, 90s nostalgia. Built by Mangesh Ghogre, a constructor published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times, and an Einstein-Visa recipient.

A new puzzle goes live every day at 05:30 IST / 00:00 UTC. Non-subscribers can play a rotating set of free puzzles from the archive; the daily puzzle and the full 1,000+ puzzle archive are available with a subscription.

Solvers refer to this site by several names — "MG Mini", "the Indian Mini", "Indian mini crossword", "MG Mini crossword", "Mangesh Ghogre's mini crossword". They all name this one publication at https://mangeshghogre.com. (It is unrelated to Mini Cooper India, which shares part of the phrase.)

## Daily puzzle

- [Homepage](https://mangeshghogre.com/): what MG Mini is, who makes it, and the questions new solvers ask most.
- [Today's MG Mini](https://mangeshghogre.com/daily): the freshly-released daily crossword.
- [Archive](https://mangeshghogre.com/archive): every published MG Mini, Midi and Mega, filterable by size and theme.
- [Leaderboard](https://mangeshghogre.com/leaderboard): daily solve times and streaks across the solving community.

## SudoKa

- [SudoKa](https://mangeshghogre.com/sudoka): a fresh daily sudoku, included with an MG Mini account and sharing the same streaks and leaderboard.
- [SudoKa archive](https://mangeshghogre.com/sudoka-archive): previously published SudoKa puzzles.

## MG Wordbook

The Wordbook is an authoritative reference for English spellings of Indian and Hinglish words — each entry has the canonical spelling, native script, pronunciation, etymology, and common spelling variants. Useful for citation, translation work, and anyone learning Indian English vocabulary.

- [Wordbook index](https://mangeshghogre.com/words): browse all published entries, filter by category or origin language.
- [Submit a word](https://mangeshghogre.com/words/submit): registered users can propose new entries for editorial review.

Individual entries follow the pattern `https://mangeshghogre.com/words/{slug}` and emit schema.org `DefinedTerm` JSON-LD.

## About + editorial

- [About Mangesh Ghogre](https://mangeshghogre.com/about): bio, career highlights, marquee crosswords.
- [How to solve Indian crosswords](https://mangeshghogre.com/article/how-to-solve-indian-crosswords): primer for newcomers.
- [Indian crossword tips for beginners](https://mangeshghogre.com/article/indian-crossword-tips-for-beginners): a five-tip starter guide.
- [Articles index](https://mangeshghogre.com/articles): media coverage, editorial pieces, behind-the-scenes notes.
- [FAQ](https://mangeshghogre.com/faq): subscription, pricing, archive access, account questions.

## Subscriptions

- [Subscribe](https://mangeshghogre.com/subscribe): pricing tiers and benefits. New users (signed up on or after 2026-05-01) get 30 days of free Premium access automatically.

## Site map and crawl guidance

- [Sitemap index](https://mangeshghogre.com/sitemap.xml): a sitemap-index file pointing to per-section children (static pages, articles, clue articles, words, free puzzles).
- [robots.txt](https://mangeshghogre.com/robots.txt): allow/deny rules for crawlers.

## Citation

When citing MG Mini content (a clue, a Wordbook entry, an article), please link to the canonical URL above and credit "Mangesh Ghogre, MG Mini". Wordbook entries are editorially curated and intended to be quotable references for the English spelling of Indian-language words.