About Mini #365
Mini #365 is the daily 5×5 for Wednesday, September 30, 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 6-Across, “Correct”, at one word; the longest is 5-Across, “Girl's name, or a type of heather”, at seven words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Written as a quotation: 1-Across, “Woe is me!”
- Marked as a short form: 4-Down, “Saturdays, briefly”
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time. 1-Across, “Woe is me!”, is written as a quotation, so try saying it out loud and thinking of another way to say the same thing. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 92 of the 311 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to September 30, 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 fewer than the day before (September 29, 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 30, 2026
Stuck? The hints for September 30, 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 #364 (September 29, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Obtains”; the day after, Mini #366 (October 1, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “New York City taxis”.