About Mini #346
Mini #346 is the daily 5×5 for Friday, September 11, 2026. Its grid has six black squares, laid out as three-square L-shapes in the top-left and bottom-right corners, which leaves 19 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's two five-letter, four four-letter and four three-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 3-Down, “Restaurant bill”, at two words; the longest is 5-Across, “Short promotional description on a book jacket”, at seven words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Fill-in-the-blank: 4-Across, “Pop star Lady ___”
Fill-in-the-blank clues are often the quickest way in, so 4-Across, “Pop star Lady ___”, is a good first stop. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 4-Across, “Pop star Lady ___” and 2-Down, “Fairy-tale giant, like Shrek”; 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 25 of the 292 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 11, 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 10, 2026), which had four.
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 11, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 11, 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 #345 (September 10, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “The opposite of bad”; the day after, Mini #347 (September 12, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Sounds from a disapproving crowd”.