NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #263 (Thursday, November 21 2024)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "You're getting warm" — becomes pretty clear with a couple of answers on the board.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #263, 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 #263, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #263.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #263 is... "You're getting warm".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "The centerpiece of many a living room."

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

MEAT
TOKEN
SEEN
OPEN
PLOT
REAR
MATCH

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

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Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's FIREPLACE.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #263?

Drumroll, please...

CHIMNEY
MANTEL
HEARTH
POKER
SCREEN
BROOM
FLUE

...and the spangram was FIREPLACE.

Strands #263

“You're getting warm”

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Hi Strands fans. Maybe I got lucky by finding the spangram straight away, but I breezed through today's puzzle.

I actually intended FIREPLACE to be an answer rather than the spangram, expecting it to be one of many winter warmers. But when it turned yellow, I knew I just had to find things connected with fireplaces, which was easy enough.

CHIMNEY was the first one I spotted, written backwards above the 'F' in the spangram. I then noticed MANTEL below said 'F', and HEARTH directly underneath the rest of the word. POKER and SCREEN completed the bottom half.

I'm glad I left the top section to the end, as the two remaining words might have tripped me up otherwise. I'm not sure I'd have ever gotten FLUE, but when I connected BROOM there was thankfully no other choice (as you couldn't quite connect "fuel").

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #262 right here.

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