About Mini #375
Mini #375 is the daily 5×5 for Saturday, October 10, 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 3-Down, “Really angry”, at two words; the longest is 1-Down, “Japanese car brand with an 'A' logo”, at seven words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Marked as a short form: 4-Down, “Wall Street exchange, in brief”
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 8-Across, “Actress Winslet of 'Titanic'” and 4-Down, “Wall Street exchange, in brief”; 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 96 of the 321 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to October 10, 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 (October 9, 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 October 10, 2026
Stuck? The hints for October 10, 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 #374 (October 9, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Apple music player of the 2000s”.