New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- PINK, LANAI, ORBIT, REEL, END. Down: PAREN, INBED, NAIL, KIT, LORE.

NYT Mini Crossword Hints - August 13, 2026

Hint 1: One of the across answers names a small Hawaiian island recognizable to anyone who has flown between the islands, or who knows it from a certain long-running television sitcom set in Miami.

Hint 2: The longest down answer is an informal shortening of a grammatical term that refers to the characters (and). You have been using what it names your entire life without necessarily knowing it had its own word.

Hint 3: One of the down clues describes a domestic morning scene so ordinary that the five-letter answer hiding inside it is easy to miss because it reads as two separate words rather than one ent...