NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #375 (Thursday, March 13 2025)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "What goes around comes around" — is a very literal puzzle with a slightly tenuous multi-word spangram.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #375, 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 #375, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #375.

Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #375 is... "What goes around comes around".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "You'll see it again".

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

  • ROUND
  • BEING
  • CRAB
  • MOURNER
  • MEETING
  • BEAR
  • CRINGE

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with N and ends with K.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's NICECOMEBACK.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #375?

Drumroll, please...

  • REBOUND
  • BOOMERANG
  • RETURN
  • BOUNCE
  • RICHOCHET

Strands #375

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...and the spangram was NICECOMEBACK.

Strands #375

“What goes around comes around”

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Hi Strands fans. As soon as I saw the theme was "What goes around comes around", I assumed it would be about things that return, and this was duly confirmed when I found REBOUND in the top-left corner.

BOOMERANG was a somewhat predictable second entry starting below it, and I then found RETURN in the bottom-right corner.

While this clearly showed a spangram ending in "comeback", I couldn't see a way to start the phrase, so kept looking for other options, eventually finding BOUNCE in the top-right corner. That gave me enough to go on, and I connected NICECOMEBACK.

That just left the anagram of COHCREIT in the middle of the board to decode. It was, of course, RICOCHET.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #374 right here.

Alan Martin

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