About Mini #369
Mini #369 is the daily 5×5 for Sunday, October 4, 2026. Its grid has two black squares, laid out as single squares in the top-right and bottom-left 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 5-Across, “Colorful plastic building bricks”, at four words; the longest is 1-Across, “High-fiber part of a grain, found in some muffins”, at nine words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Ends in a question mark: 4-Down, “Things you smell with?”
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time, so a good first stop is the shortest slot: 1-Across has only four letters. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 7-Across, “From the Emerald Isle” and 2-Down, “Showed again, as an old TV episode”; 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 81 of the 315 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to October 4, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. The day before (October 3, 2026) also had two 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 October 4, 2026
Stuck? The hints for October 4, 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 #368 (October 3, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Phone programs, for short”.