Today's NYT Strands hints and answer — solutions to game #593, October 17

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 #593, 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 #593, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #593.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #593 is... "Gait keeping".
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "I like the way you move".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- VAST
- PREPS
- SKATES
- WREN
- PACT
- TAKES
- SHALL
- LAMP
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 both starts and ends with 'S'.
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It's SILLYWALKS.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #593?
Drumroll, please...
- PRANCE
- SCUTTLE
- CAPER
- GALUMPH
- TRAIPSE
- CAVORT
...and the spangram was SILLYWALKS.
Strands #593
“Gait keeping”
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Hi Strands fans. With a theme like "Gait keeping", this was clearly going to be about walking in some capacity.
Indeed I could see the word "walks" at the bottom, but couldn't see how to extend it into the spangram yet, so begun to look for styles of strolling, strutting and sauntering.
None of these words were actually answers, however, and the first two I found were a little more obscure: PRANCE in the top-right corner, and SCUTTLE diagonally opposite.
After that, however, I was stumped, so used a clue. it revealed CAPER in the top left, which I can't say I'd have found right away without. And its slightly odd shape helped me find GALUMPH, a word that definitely wasn't racing to jump off my tongue.
With the whole left side of the board complete, I could now see how the spangram connected. It was SILLYWALKS, spelt from top to bottom.
Two answers were left to find on the right-hand side. TRAIPSE was in the bottom-right corner, with CAVORT above it to complete a deceptively tricky puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #592.
- SPORTS
- NEWS
- MUSIC
- HISTORY
- MOVIES
- GEOGRAPHY
...and the spangram was TRIVIANIGHT.
Strands #592
“And the category is ...”
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Hi Strands fans. I definitely wasn't at my best today, somehow missing the obvious theme right before my eyes.
I found SPORTS at the top of the board, but then managed to get it into my head that this was about newspaper sections - something not helped when a clue revealed NEWS.
It was only when a second clue unveiled MUSIC that I realized I had been barking up the wrong tree. I quickly found the spangram of TRIVIANIGHT snaking across the board, and then picked off the three remaining topics.
HISTORY was in the bottom-left corner, while MOVIES and GEOGRAPHY were on the opposite side to complete the puzzle.
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