About Mini #317
Mini #317 is the daily 5×5 for Thursday, August 13, 2026. Its grid has two black squares, laid out as single squares in the top-left and bottom-right corners, which leaves 23 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's six five-letter and four four-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 8-Across, “365 days”, at two words; the longest is 1-Across, “Luxury German cars, in the plural”, at six words. None of the ten clues is a fill-in-the-blank, a quotation, a question-mark clue or a marked short form.
There's no fill-in-the-blank this time, so a good first stop is the shortest slot: 1-Across has only four letters. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 1-Across, “Luxury German cars, in the plural” and 6-Across, “Main language of northern India”; 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 76 of the 263 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to August 13, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. That's four black squares fewer than the day before (August 12, 2026), which had six.
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 13, 2026
Stuck? The hints for August 13, 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 #316 (August 12, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Chimp or gorilla”; the day after, Mini #318 (August 14, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Bills and coins”.