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 #620, as well as the answers, should it come to that.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #620.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #620 is... "Out, damned spot!"
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Cleaning time".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- BOATS
- STALE
- SALTS
- RULE
- SOOT
- SHALE
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 'S' and ends with 'L'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's STAINREMOVAL.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #620?
Drumroll, please...
- SPRAY
- SCRUB
- BLEACH
- STEAM
- SOAK
- BLOT
- LAUNDER
...and the spangram was STAINREMOVAL.
Strands #620
“Out, damned spot!”
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Hi Strands fans. The English Literature graduate in me saw this theme and immediately jumped to Macbeth. But I quickly realized it was actually a more literal definition: a puzzle all about cleaning.
I found SCRUB in the top-right corner, followed by the spangram of STAINREMOVAL below and to its left. That neatly isolated SPRAY in the top-left corner, too.
After that, it was just a case of finding various cleaning terms. I found BLEACH and STEAM in the bottom-right corner, before spotting SOAK and BLOT to their left.
All that was left was to connect LAUNDER to complete the puzzle without clues.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #619.
- ACROSS
- DOWN
- CLUES
- BYLINE
- ANSWERS
- GRID
- NUMBERS
...and the spangram was CROSSWORD.
Strands #619
“How puzzling”
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Hi Strands fans. A nice and easy one today: the theme of "How puzzling" was always going to be about puzzles, after all.
And I established it was specifically about crosswords when I found the word ACROSS written along the bottom of the grid. I then connected the spangram of CROSSWORD, and the words DOWN, CLUES and BYLINE below it to complete the half.
The top half was a little trickier, but as soon as I found ANSWERS in the top-right corner, things got easier. I just needed to grab NUMBERS on the left-hand side and GRID to its right to complete the puzzle.
