Hints, Spangram And Answers For Saturday, August 9th

Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers

Credit: New York Times

I have returned, dearest Strandistarians! After a couple weeks off, I am back as your humble Strands guide, here to help you string together words on today’s grid. Speaking of which, this one was actually quite tricky compared to a lot of recent Strands puzzles. Even once I had a very solid sense of what the theme was and how to solve this, some of these were quite tricky.

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Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme.

Spoilers ahead.

Today’s Strands Hints

Read on for today’s theme and some hints to help you uncover today’s words.

Today’s Theme: Gastronomic gadgets

Hint: Things you use when you’re cooking, baking or making drinks.

Clue: These are mostly non-powered gadgets you’ll use with your hands.

Here are the first two letters of each word:

Remember, spoilers ahead!

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Today’s spangram is: KITCHENTOOL

Here’s the full list of words:

• CORKSCREW
• WHISK
• MIXER
• SIEVE
• SPATULA
• ZESTER

Here’s the completed Strands grid:

Today’s Strands Breakdown

This was a much easier Strands than yesterday’s. Kitchen stuff is easy for me since I spend so much time in the kitchen cooking (and cleaning). It’s also a very clever puzzle. Look at the word CORKSCREW. It’s shaped like a CORKSCREW! I think SPATULA is kind of shaped like a SPATULA also. The rest, not so much. In any case, most of these are pretty easy words, though it did take me awhile to get going.

As a bonus, here are the answers for Friday’s Strands, which we did not post a guide for. This one was much tougher:

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