Archive · Puzzle #3
Friday, May 29, 2026
Mini Crossword
Across
- 1Box practice
- 5Mare's mate
- 6Hawaiian greeting
- 7Flowing water
- 8Paradise
Down
- 5Long-eared hopper
- 1Firm
- 2Demonstrate
- 3Pale
- 4Back
Friday Mini Crossword puzzles run at the harder end of the weekly difficulty curve, though not yet at the weekend ceiling. Puzzle #3 (Friday, May 29, 2026) reflects that calibration: longer solve times, occasional unusual vocabulary or pattern, and more reliance on strategic guess selection than the early-week material requires. Players using the archive to build skill should treat Fridays as the practical training-day puzzles.
Late-May puzzles close the calendar month, with puzzle #3 part of that closing run. The Mini Crossword calibration does not shift specifically for end-of-month — the puzzle difficulty follows the day-of-week band per the published methodology — but players who track monthly solve streaks often pay extra attention to the closing days to lock in a full-month run.
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