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 #873 as well as the answers, should it come to that.
We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #873, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #873.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #873 is... "There's more where that came from."
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "All that remains".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- NEAT
- TRASH
- RUNES
- DENSE
- PLUS
- SANE
- MOST
- DOVES
- DOTES
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 'A' and ends with 'E'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's ANDTHENSOME.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #873?
Drumroll, please...
- EXCESS
- EXTRA
- SPARE
- UNUSED
- SURPLUS
- LEFTOVER
...and the spangram was ANDTHENSOME.
Strands #873
“There's more where that came from”
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Hi Strands fans. I would have struggled today, were it not for two 'X's guiding me to my first pair of answers.
The one in the bottom-right corner was EXCESS. The one further up was EXTRA. When combined with the theme of "There's more where that came from", it was pretty clear this was a puzzle about having more of something than necessary.
SPARE was spelt out backwards down the left-hand side, and my three answers cordoned in a fourth: UNUSED in the bottom-left corner.
I then spotted the spangram. It was ANDTHENSOME across two diagonal lines above my existing answers.
Two words were left to find in the top section. SURPLUS was in the top-right corner, and that just left LEFTOVER next to it to complete the puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #872.
- COMMANDER
- LIEUTENANT
- ADMIRAL
- ENSIGN
- RECRUIT
...and the spangram was NAVYRANKS.
Strands #872
“Hail to the chief petty officer”
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Hi strands fans. A pretty straightforward one once you figure out what it's about.
I could see the word "navy" written downwards from the middle, so figured out that this was about sea military in some capacity straight away.
I then saw COMMANDER in the bottom-right corner, with LIEUTENANT above it (albeit with a couple of false starts while I misspelled it!).
That was right next to the aforementioned "navy", so I followed it down the side of COMMANDER to spell NAVYRANKS.
ADMIRAL is perhaps the most obvious of these, and it was written on the middle of the left-hand side, leaving two anagrams to solve above and below.
NGENSI was ENSIGN in the bottom half, while TIURCER is, of course, RECRUIT spelt backwards.
