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NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #436 (Tuesday, May 13 2025)

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Need help with Strands #436? Here are some hints and the answers

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Keep on keeping on" — is a little tricky until you have a couple of answers on the board.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #436, 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 #436, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #436.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #436 is... "Keep on keeping on".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Going the distance".

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

  • SPIDERS
  • RESIDE
  • DUEL
  • REPS
  • SAVER
  • DAYS

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

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's STAYSTRONG.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #436?

Drumroll, please...

  • SURVIVE
  • LAST
  • ENDURE
  • ABIDE
  • PERSIST
  • PERSEVRE

Strands #436

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...and the spangram was STAYSTRONG.

Strands #436

“Keep on keeping on”

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Hi Strands fans. Today's puzzle was a little tricky, even though I cottoned on to the spangram of STAYSTRONG right away after seeing the word "stay" in the middle of the grid.

I then found SURVIVE in the top-right corner, followed by LAST and ENDURE to its left to complete the top half.

Unfortunately, the bottom half was a lot tougher to decode and it got a lot harder. I had to use two clues, which first revealed ABIDE in the middle, followed by PERSIST in the bottom-right corner.

That just left decoding the anagram of EPRSEVERE in the bottom-left corner. It was, of course, PERSEVERE.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #435 right here.

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