NYT ‘Strands’ Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Monday, September 30th

Looking for help with today’s NYT Strands puzzle? Here’s an extra hint to help you uncover the right words, as well as all of today’s answers and Spangram.

​Looking for help with today’s NYT Strands puzzle? Here’s an extra hint to help you uncover the right words, as well as all of today’s answers and Spangram.  Read More Technology

Looking for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:

Today’s Strands is kind of tricky, though it depends on your interests I suppose. As someone not very familiar with what the theme ended up being, I was a bit lost and confused with some of these—even once I realized what it was. In in case, it’s the last day of September! Let’s solve the last Strands of September!

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

Today’s Theme: Words with weight

Hint #1: Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Hint #2: Think in terms of different classes.

To help you uncover all the words, here are the first two letters of every word, including the spangram, in today’s puzzle:

HE
LI
BA
FE
WE
MI
CR
BO

Remember, spoilers ahead!

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Today’s spangram is: BOXING

Here’s the full list of words:

HEAVY
LIGHT
BANTAM
FEATHER
WELTER
MIDDLE
CRUISER
BOXING

Here’s the completed Strands grid:

Today’s Strands

Credit: Erik Kain

Today’s Strands Breakdown

This was tricky! Definitely the most challenging Strands puzzle I’ve done since taking over these guides this weekend. I am not very familiar with boxing, so BANTAM and WELTER aren’t really on my radar, though once I found FEATHER (after already nabbing HEAVY and LIGHT) I was pretty sure it was boxing weight classes, which led me to the spangram.

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