About Mini #384
Mini #384 is the daily 5×5 for Monday, October 19, 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 3-Down, “Delicious!”, at one word; the longest is 1-Down, “Flower with white petals and a yellow center”, at eight words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Written as a quotation: 3-Down, “Delicious!”
- Marked as a short form: 5-Down, “Abbr. after a company name”
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time. 3-Down, “Delicious!”, is written as a quotation, so try saying it out loud and thinking of another way to say the same thing. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 4-Across, “Hawaiian island home to Honolulu”; 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 27 of the 330 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to October 19, 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 (October 18, 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 19, 2026
Stuck? The hints for October 19, 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 #383 (October 18, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Police officers, informally”.