★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★An octopus has nine brains.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A group of frogs is called an army.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★The moon has moonquakes.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.

★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★An octopus has nine brains.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A group of frogs is called an army.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★The moon has moonquakes.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.

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Across

1. Campfire piece
4. Corn part or hearing organ
5. Tiny fruit in a bunch
8. Big salty water
9. Took a seat

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1. Table support
2. Rowing tool
3. Lawn cover
6. Small green vegetable
7. Have a meal

How to play Mini crossword

Tap a cell to start typing into a word. Each clue points to one across or down answer in the 5 by 5 grid. Type letters with your keyboard or the on screen keys. Switch between across and down by tapping the active cell again. The puzzle is complete when every cell holds the right letter. Use the check button if you want a hint about a wrong square.

Tips

Solve the easy clues first to lock in shared letters
Two and three letter answers are usually filler words like ERA or AGE
If a clue stumps you, jump to the crossing answer
Pencil in your best guess so you do not lose it while you think

About Mini crossword

The crossword turns 113 years old next December. Arthur Wynne made the first one for the New York World newspaper in 1913 and called it a word cross. The mini format, a quick five by five grid, took off again with the New York Times mini in 2014. People love it because it fits in a coffee break. Our daily mini follows the same rule, one fresh grid every morning, solvable in a minute or two if your brain is awake.

More word games

Daily word: Guess the 5-letter word in six tries. New word every day.
Word ladder: Change one letter at a time to climb from start to target word.
Anagram blitz: Six letters, sixty seconds. How many real words can you find?
Typing sprint: Type as fast as you can in 30 seconds. Track your words per minute.
Save the smiley: A friendly hangman game. Guess the word before the smiley falls apart.
Owls: Place one owl per row, column and color region. A new puzzle every day.

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