NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #257 (Friday, November 15 2024)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Dress for lunch" — isn't too cryptic, and there aren't too many answers to find either.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #257, 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 #257, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #257.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #257 is... "Dress for lunch".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "A nice, light meal".

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

SCREENS
CREDO
MALE
BEES
RAIN
GRINS
MOLE
WASTER

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

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Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's SALADGREENS.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #257?

Drumroll, please...

ROMAINE
ICEBERG
RADICCHIO
KALE
WATERCRESS

...and the spangram was SALADGREENS.

Strands #257

“Dress for lunch”

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Hi Strands fans. A nice and easy one today. "Dress for lunch" immediately made me think of salad dressings, and indeed I saw the word "salad" right away, but couldn't quite see how to turn it into the spangram. So I began looking for types of salad: Caesar, Cobb, Wedge, etc.

When I found none of these, I noticed ROMAINE in the top-left corner and began looking for types of salad leaves instead. ICEBERG was on the opposite side, and I found RADICCHIO in the bottom right.

I'd now cleared enough space to figure out how the spangram would end: SALADGREENS.

That neatly cordoned off the four letters of KALE, which left me with just the anagram of "WAETRCRSSE" to figure out. It doesn't take a genius to decrypt that: WATERCRESS.