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Mini #323 · Wednesday

Printable Mini Crossword — August 19, 2026

Clean print layout: grid on top, clues below. Press Ctrl+P (⌘+P on a Mac) to print.

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Across

  1. 1. Big brass instrument that oompahs in a marching band
  2. 5. Tool for smoothing wrinkles from clothes
  3. 6. A routine you do without thinking
  4. 7. Middle Eastern country with capital Tehran
  5. 8. Mild exclamation like 'darn!'

Down

  1. 1. Sparkly crown worn by a princess
  2. 2. Relating to the city, not the country
  3. 3. Cartoon sound of a bouncing spring
  4. 4. Tiny picnic pest
  5. 6. Played hide-and-seek and tucked away

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About this printout

This page prints Mini #323 (Wednesday, August 19, 2026): a 5×5 grid with four black squares and ten clues, five Across and five Down. The site's navigation and footer are left off the printout, and so are these notes.

Solving on paper

Paper has no Check button, so write lightly where you're unsure. The shortest slot, 4-Down, has only three letters, so it's a good place to start. The shortest clue is 4-Down, “Tiny picnic pest”, at three words; the longest is 1-Across, “Big brass instrument that oompahs in a marching band”, at nine words. None of the ten clues is a fill-in-the-blank, a quotation, a question-mark clue or a marked short form.

When you've finished, compare with the answer key for August 19, 2026, or open the hints if you get stuck. Prefer a screen? Play it online. The day before, Mini #322 (August 18, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Send a document over a phone line”; the day after, Mini #324 (August 20, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Similar or related”.