About Mini #307
Mini #307 is the daily 5×5 for Monday, August 3, 2026. Its grid has six black squares, laid out as three-square L-shapes in the top-left and bottom-right corners, which leaves 19 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's two five-letter, four four-letter and four three-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 6-Across, “Capital of Norway”, at three words; the longest is 1-Down, “Prison rooms, or the tiny units of the body”, at nine words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Fill-in-the-blank: 5-Across, “Tender cut of steak, ___ mignon”
Fill-in-the-blank clues are often the quickest way in, so 5-Across, “Tender cut of steak, ___ mignon”, is a good first stop. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 4-Across, “South American country whose capital is Lima” and 6-Across, “Capital of Norway”; if one is unfamiliar, work its crossing answers first. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 20 of the 253 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to August 3, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. That's two black squares more than the day before (August 2, 2026), which had four.
Like every daily 5×5 in our library, it was generated at our “easy” difficulty setting. The same date also has a 6×6 with 12 clues and a 7×7 with 16 clues.
More for August 3, 2026
Stuck? The hints for August 3, 2026 give three hints per clue, the answer key reveals one answer at a time, and there's a printable copy for solving on paper. The day after, Mini #308 (August 4, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Novel or textbook”.