About Mini #314
Mini #314 is the daily 5×5 for Monday, August 10, 2026. Its grid has four black squares, laid out as side-by-side pairs in the top-left and bottom-right corners, which leaves 21 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's four five-letter, four four-letter and two three-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 7-Across, “Tough and durable”, at three words; the longest is 4-Across, “Show with arias, like 'Carmen'”, at five words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Marked as a short form: 4-Down, “Federal workplace-safety agency, in brief”
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time, so a good first stop is the shortest slot: 1-Across has only three letters. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 27 of the 260 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to August 10, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. The day before (August 9, 2026) also had four black squares, arranged differently.
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 10, 2026
Stuck? The hints for August 10, 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 before, Mini #313 (August 9, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Coffee mug”; the day after, Mini #315 (August 11, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Like a refreshing glass of tea in summer”.