NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #304 (Wednesday, January 1 2025)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "What a workout" — is easy enough to figure out, but is still rather tricky to fill out.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #304, 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 #304, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #304.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #304 is... "What a workout".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Cardio and weights."

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

PLEA
TRIES
TRUCE
BEEP
FILED
HUNK
BRIE

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

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Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's EXERCISE.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #304?

Drumroll, please...

LUNGE
CRUNCH
SQUAT
PLANK
SITUP
BURPEE
DEADLIFT

...and the spangram was EXERCISE.

Strands #304

“What a workout”

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Hi Strands fans. Happy New Year! Today's theme - "What a workout" - isn't too hard to decode, even if it's unlikely to encourage too many people to hit the gym on the first day of 2025.

I found the spangram right away, with the 'X' on the right side of the board leading me straight to EXERCISE spelt backwards.

I must say, my gym sessions typically involve the exercise bike and elliptical trainer rather than the weights, which meant I was at a slight disadvantage here, but I gamely managed to spot three non-cardio activities all the same. I found LUNGE just below the spangram, and CRUNCH around it in the bottom-left corner.

I next spotted SQUAT in the top right, but was then at a loss as to where to go next, so used a clue which revealed PLANK along the bottom of the grid. That cleared a path to SITUP to its right to finish the bottom segment.

Two were left in the top half of the board, and I found BURPEE first in the middle. That just left ADELDITF to rearrange into DEADLIFT to complete the puzzle.