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 #971 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 #971, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #971.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #971 is... "All charged up."
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Top up that battery."
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- CLERIC
- JUGGLER
- RANT
- ROCKER
- DICE
- WRITE
- RUCK
- COWER
- NEAR
- PARSE
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 'P' and ends with 'N'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's PLUGGEDIN.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #971?
Drumroll, please...
- JUICE
- ELECTRICITY
- POWER
- ENERGY
- CURRENT
- SPARK
...and the spangram was PLUGGEDIN.
Strands #971
“All charged up”
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Hi Strands fans. Maybe it's because I'm a tech writer, and spend most of my days juggling with charging cables, but the theme of "All charged up" seemed immediately obvious to me.
I immediately connected the spangram of PLUGGEDIN from the top-left corner to the right-hand side. Helpfully, this isolated JUICE above it.
So now I knew I was looking for ways of describing ELECTRICITY, which happened to be the third word I found immediately below the spangram.
POWER was next on the right-hand side, with ENERGY below it.
Two answers remained in the bottom-left corner. CURRENT was down the side, with SPARK to its right to complete the puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #970.
- 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.
