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 #970 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 #970, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #970.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #970 is... "Double, double toil and trouble."
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Which potion ingredients?"
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- GOBLET
- SAKE
- BOBBLE
- RODE
- GROWN
- ROBE
- BRAN
- BURN
- COBBLE
- RAIL
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 'C' and ends with 'N'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's CAULDRON.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #970?
Drumroll, please...
- BLOOD
- FIRE
- SNAKE
- LIZARD
- NEWT
- BUBBLE
- WORM
- TONGUE
...and the spangram was CAULDRON.
Strands #970
“Double, double toil and trouble”
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Hi Strands fans. A pretty straightforward Halloween-coded puzzle for you today.
With the theme of "Double, double toil and trouble" lifted from Macbeth, this was clearly going to be a puzzle about witches. Sure enough, I found the spangram of CAULDRON appropriately shaped like the vessel across the middle of the board.
I then found a trio of creepy answers underneath it: BLOOD on the left, FIRE in the middle and SNAKE on the right.
Moving onto the top half, I found that mysterious 'Z' down the right-hand side was part of LIZARD, with NEWT to its left.
BUBBLE was in the middle with WORM above that. All that was left was to connect TONGUE backwards up the left-hand side to complete the puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #969.
- IMPROV
- SKETCH
- FARCE
- BURLESQUE
- SLAPSTICK
...and the spangram was FUNNYBUSINESS.
Strands #969
“Comedy club”
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Hi Strands fans. A pretty straightforward one today, once I'd figured out that the theme of "Comedy club" wasn't to be taken completely literally (the answers weren't things like "microphone", "stage", and so on).
I saw the word "funny" in the bottom-right corner, and when that wasn't an answer, I looked for ways to extend it as part of the spangram.
Sure enough, I was able to draw out FUNNYBUSINESS to split the board in two. That isolated IMPROV in the top-right corner to set me on my way.
SKETCH was on the left-hand side, with FARCE to its right, leaving two answers siloed in their own sections.
BURLESQUE was in the bottom half, which just left SLAPSTICK in the top-left corner to complete the puzzle.
