Archive · Puzzle #26
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Mini Crossword
Across
- 1Big party
- 5Salty water
- 6Tracking system
- 7Each
- 8Pill amount
Down
- 5Reared
- 1Hooray
- 2Assistants
- 3Trap
- 4Hatred, archaically
Weekend Mini Crossword puzzles are deliberately the hardest in the weekly rotation. Puzzle #26 (Sunday, June 21, 2026) is one of those: calibrated for solve times noticeably longer than weekday material and for the kind of edge-case pattern or vocabulary that produces "I thought I knew this one" experiences. Players who solve weekend puzzles consistently are at the upper end of the regular-player population.
Mid-June sits in the steady-rotation middle of the calendar month. The Mini Crossword difficulty calibration does not adjust for calendar position; puzzle #26 runs the same calibration the day-of-week band specifies, regardless of where in the month it falls. The mid-month archive is the most representative slice of typical Mini Crossword difficulty over time.