About Mini #335
Mini #335 is the daily 5×5 for Monday, August 31, 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 4-Down, “Not difficult”, at two words; the longest is 7-Across, “Girl's name that sounds like a Dickinson poet”, at eight words. None of the ten clues is a fill-in-the-blank, a quotation, a question-mark clue or a marked short form.
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 7-Across, “Girl's name that sounds like a Dickinson poet”; 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 82 of the 281 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to August 31, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. That's four black squares fewer than the day before (August 30, 2026), which had six.
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 31, 2026
Stuck? The hints for August 31, 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 #334 (August 30, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Homer Simpson's frustrated cry”; the day after, Mini #336 (September 1, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Vampire's pointy tooth”.