About Mini #342
Mini #342 is the daily 5×5 for Monday, September 7, 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 8-Across, “Concludes”, at one word; the longest is 7-Across, “Layers of a wedding cake”, at five 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. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 85 of the 288 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 7, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. The day before (September 6, 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 September 7, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 7, 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 #341 (September 6, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Peaceful and relaxed”; the day after, Mini #343 (September 8, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Structure that holds back a river”.