About Mini #328
Mini #328 is the daily 5×5 for Monday, August 24, 2026. Its grid has two black squares, laid out as single squares in the top-left and bottom-right corners, which leaves 23 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's six five-letter and four four-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 5-Down, “Kitchen boss?”, at two words; the longest is 8-Across, “Quick, or a period of not eating”, at seven words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Ends in a question mark: 5-Down, “Kitchen boss?”
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time, so a good first stop is the shortest slot: 1-Across has only four letters. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 6-Across, “Troy's famous beauty of Greek myth”; if one is unfamiliar, work its crossing answers first. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 80 of the 274 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to August 24, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. The day before (August 23, 2026) also had two black squares, arranged differently.
Like every daily 5×5 in our library, it was generated at our “easy” difficulty setting. The same date also has a 6×6 with 12 clues and a 7×7 with 16 clues.
More for August 24, 2026
Stuck? The hints for August 24, 2026 give three hints per clue, the answer key reveals one answer at a time, and there's a printable copy for solving on paper. The day before, Mini #327 (August 23, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Pleads earnestly”; the day after, Mini #329 (August 25, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Block a drain”.