About Mini #406
Mini #406 is the daily 5×5 for Tuesday, November 10, 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 1-Down, “Pleads earnestly”, at two words; the longest is 7-Across, “Dutch cheese with a red wax coating”, at seven words. None of the ten clues is a fill-in-the-blank, a quotation, a question-mark clue or a marked short form.
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 5-Across, “Digital read on a Kindle”; 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 89 of the 352 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to November 10, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. That's four black squares fewer than the day before (November 9, 2026), which had six.
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 November 10, 2026
Stuck? The hints for November 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 #405 (November 9, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Young woman, informally”; the day after, Mini #407 (November 11, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Stylish and fashionable”.