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Today's NYT Strands hints and answer: solutions to game #709, February 10

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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 #709 as well as the answers, should it come to that.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #709.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #709 is... "It's on the house".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Building up".

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

  • COINING
  • IODINE
  • STOVE
  • MATE
  • BINDING
  • STEIN
  • COST
  • POST
  • MOIST

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 'S' and ends with 'L'.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's SIDINGMATERIAL.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #709?

Drumroll, please...

  • WOOD
  • BRICK
  • STONE
  • VINYL
  • STUCCO
  • COMPOSITE

Strands #709

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...and the spangram was SIDINGMATERIAL.

Strands #709

“It's on the house”

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Hi Strands fans. A tough one that involved a couple of terms I'm not super familiar with. Despite this, I managed to get through with only one clue.

That was purely because I saw the word WOOD down the left-hand side, and connected it as a possible clue word. To my surprise, it turned blue, telling me that this was literally about house building.

I then set to work looking for other materials, finding BRICK in the middle and STONE above it.

I was out of ideas at this point, and used a clue that revealed VINYL. This isolated STUCCO in the top-left corner: a word I'd never have gotten if it wasn't the only option.

I then connected COMPOSITE at the bottom, which left the spangram of SIDINGMATERIAL along the right-hand side and bottom of the grid to complete the puzzle.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #708.

Strands #708

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  • PASSPORT
  • LUGGAGE
  • TARMAC
  • PILOT
  • SECURITY
  • RUNWAY

...and the spangram was AIRPORTS.

Strands #708

“Frequent flyer”

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Hi Strands fans. With a theme of "Frequent flyer", today's puzzle was extremely likely to be about planes or airports in some capacity.

That was proven to be correct almost instantly, when I spotted the spangram of AIRPORTS across the middle of the grid.

From there on, it was just a case of listing words associated with air travel. I found PASSPORT in the top-right corner, followed by LUGGAGE and TARMAC below the spangram. PILOT in the bottom-right corner completed the half.

Two words were left to find in the top section. SECURITY snaked from just above the left of the spangram to the middle of the grid, leaving RUNWAY in the top-left corner to round things off.

Alan Martin
Alan Martin

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. He also handles all the Wordle coverage on Tom's Guide and has been playing the addictive NYT game for the last several years in an effort to keep his streak forever intact.

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