Slate Mini Crossword for Oct. 28, 2026

Today's puzzle has seven pears.

Candidates and supporters make their final push with less than a week until Election Day as the economy remains voters’ top concern, at least 30 people are dead after two high-speed trains collide in central Spain and potentially record-breaking high tides trigger more flooding along both coasts.

President Trump makes yet another trip to Texas to stump for Republicans ahead of the midterms. Flavio Bolsonaro goes on the lam in Brazil, as the Trump White House offers a visa. And the Supreme Court rules that immigration judges cannot use their discretion in halting deportation cases.

An ancient discovery offers another window into Jerusalem’s past. Katrina Szish reports on the discovery of a 1,000-foot stretch of a 2,000-year-old aqueduct that archaeologists say carried water from springs south of Bethlehem to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.