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Need a bit of help with NYT Strands today? No shame in that, and you've come to the right place. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #684 as well as the answers, should it come to that.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #684.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #684 is... "DC crusader."
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Bruce? Is that you?"
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- SUIT
- JUICE
- MANGE
- ROAM
- PACKER
- BORN
- TOME
- NUTS
Still struggling? The spangram touches two opposite sides of the board (but can start and end anywhere), and will give you a hint about the connection between the answers. Today, it starts with 'B' and ends in 'N'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's BATMAN.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #684?
Drumroll, please...
- JOKER
- CAPE
- ROBIN
- PENGUIN
- JUSTICE
- VENGEANCE
- MANOR
...and the spangram was BATMAN.
Strands #684
“DC crusader”
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Hi Strands fans. Another easy one today, even if the answers are a weird selection of villains and words loosely associated with the Dark Knight.
With the theme of "DC crusader", this was clearly going to be about BATMAN, which I found across the board near the top.
JOKER was the obvious next answer, which was directly above, leaving CAPE and ROBIN either side.
The bottom half began with another villain on the left-hand side (PENGUIN), before moving into more tenuously associated words like JUSTICE on the right and VENGEANCE near the top. That just left MANOR between the two to complete the puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #683.
- CARTILAGE
- LOBE
- DRUM
- CANAL
- HAMMER
- STIRRUP
- ANVIL
...and the spangram was HEARHEAR.
Strands #683
“The ears have it!”
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Hi Strands fans. A nice easy one today, with the theme of "The ears have it!" really giving the game away before I even looked at the grid.
I was already primed to look for ear-related words, and immediately found CARTILAGE snaking around the top of the grid. That sidelined four letters that I turned into LOBE.
Given the theme featured the word "ear", I knew the spangram couldn't. So when I saw "hear" in the top left, I began looking for ways to extend it across the board. Sure enough, the phrase HEARHEAR did the trick.
That cordoned off another two words to its left: DRUM and CANAL.
Three answers were left to find on the right-hand side of the board, and all three were to do with the ear's internals. I saw HAMMER first, followed by STIRRUP to its left. That just left ANVIL in the bottom-right corner to complete the puzzle.
