About Mini #355
Mini #355 is the daily 5×5 for Sunday, September 20, 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 1-Down, “Helped out”, at two words; the longest is 5-Across, “Olympic award for first, second, or third place”, 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 three letters. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 26 of the 301 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 20, 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 19, 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 20, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 20, 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 #354 (September 19, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Feel unwell”; the day after, Mini #356 (September 21, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Sculpture of a head and shoulders”.