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Need a little help with NYT Strands today? Today’s puzzle topic – “See you on the square” – shouldn’t give you too much trouble once you figure out what it refers to.
Below we’ve put together some useful hints for Strand #176, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We’ll start with some hints before getting to the full answer for Strand #176, so keep reading if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers for Strands No. 176 follow.
Today’s NYT Strands Answer – Today’s Topic and Clues
The official theme for NYT Strands No. 176 is… “See you on the pitch.”
And here’s an unofficial tip from me: “Game, set and match.”
If you’re still in the dark, here are some useful words that will give you valuable clue tokens:
- GOLF
- GROSS
- END
- VERY
- TEAM
- VICE
- SLATE
Still having trouble? The spangram gives you a clue to the connecting word. Today it starts with “G” and ends with “M”.
Scroll down to find out what it is…
It’s GRANDSLAM.
Today’s Strands Answers
So what are Strands’ answers for game #175 today?
Drum roll, please…
- VOLLEY
- SURCHARGE
- BAT
- DISC
- FOREHAND
- CRUSH
- LOVE
..and the spangram was GRANDSLAM.
Strands #176
“See you on the pitch”
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Hey Strands fans, I don’t know about you, but I automatically associate the word “court” with tennis, so the “See you on the court” theme immediately put me on the right track.
This was confirmed when I found the words VOLLEY and SERVE in the bottom right and left corners respectively. RACKET in the top right corner and SLICE followed directly below. These words combined to form a path that would form the end of the spangram: GRANDSLAM.
That left just three words for me to find. FOREHAND was the longest of these and snaked around the bottom three confirmed words so I found it easily. That left two shorter ones in the top half of the grid. I connected SMASH and LOVE in the top left quadrant to solve the puzzle in a reasonably quick time.
Yesterday’s Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? For the full article, see yesterday’s Strands Answers for Game No. 175 right here.
