About Mini #364
Mini #364 is the daily 5×5 for Tuesday, September 29, 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 1-Across, “Obtains”, at one word; the longest is 5-Across, “Tie score in a game”, at five words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Marked as a short form: 8-Across, “Big truck, for short”; 1-Down, “Nation's economic output, in brief”
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 9-Across, “Major sports TV network”; 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 24 of the 310 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 29, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. The day before (September 28, 2026) also had four 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 14 clues.
More for September 29, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 29, 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 #363 (September 28, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Do-it-yourself, for short”; the day after, Mini #365 (September 30, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Woe is me!”.