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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 #805 as well as the answers, should it come to that.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #805.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #805 is... "Strike one!"
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Knocking down the pins".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- BRIDAL
- COBRA
- COAL
- DEALING
- LENSES
- BRING
- SELL
- BLADE
- BREAD
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 'Y'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's BOWLINGALLEY.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #805?
Drumroll, please...
- SCOREBOARD
- PINS
- LANES
- BALLS
- LOUNGE
- ARCADE
...and the spangram was BOWLINGALLEY.
Strands #805
“Strike one!”
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Hi Strands fans. A pretty easy one today, as long as you don’t automatically read the theme of “Strike one!” as being related to baseball.
As I’m from England, that was never a risk for me, and I immediately thought of bowling. Sure enough, I saw the spangram of BOWLINGALLEY written down the middle of the grid right away to set me up with the perfect start.
There were six answers to find, evenly spread between the left and right-hand sides. Starting with the former, I found SCOREBOARD in the top-left corner, with PINS below it. LANES was in the bottom-left corner to complete the half.
The right-hand side was a little trickier, and I had to start in the middle with BALLS. That left me with two anagrams to solve above and below. The latter — EGNULO — was LOUNGE, which just left ARACDE in the top-right corner to finish the puzzle. It was, of course, ARCADE.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #804.
- MACARON
- MOUSSE
- MERINGUE
- CROISSANT
- ECLAIR
...and the spangram was FRENCHBAKERY.
Strands #804
“Bon appétit!”
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Hi Strands fans. A really simple one today, given the top line spells out the first half of the spangram: "french".
It didn't take much to extend that down the right-hand side to spell FRENCHBAKERY and blow this puzzle wide open.
MACARON was immediately below "french", with MOUSSE spelt out along the bottom of the board. I then found MERINGUE down the left-hand side.
With hindsight, it's surprising that CROISSANT, that classic of the French bakery, was only the fourth answer I found. But with that out the way, all I needed to do was to connect ECLAIR to its left to complete the puzzle.
