About Mini #336
Mini #336 is the daily 5×5 for Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Its grid has four black squares, laid out as stacked pairs in the top-right and bottom-left corners, which leaves 21 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's four five-letter, four four-letter and two three-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 5-Across, “Beehive State”, at two words; the longest is 6-Across, “Chevrolet models... or bright exploding stars”, at six 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-Down has only three letters. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 5-Across, “Beehive State” and 4-Down, “West African country with capital Accra”; 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 22 of the 282 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 1, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. That's two black squares more than the day before (August 31, 2026), which had two.
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 14 clues.
More for September 1, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 1, 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 #335 (August 31, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “First stop in baseball”; the day after, Mini #337 (September 2, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Undergarment with cups”.