About Mini #343
Mini #343 is the daily 5×5 for Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Its grid has four black squares, laid out as single squares in all four corners, which leaves 21 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's six five-letter and four three-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 1-Down, “Train station”, at two words; the longest is 6-Across, “Like milk you're told not to cry over”, at eight words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Marked as a short form: 5-Down, “Sexually transmitted illness, for short”
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time, so a good first stop is the shortest slot: 1-Across has only three letters. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 31 of the 289 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 8, 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 (September 7, 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 16 clues.
More for September 8, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 8, 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 #342 (September 7, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Out-of-focus photo”; the day after, Mini #344 (September 9, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Dull and colorless”.