NYT Strands Today – Clues, Spangram and Answers for Game #296 (Tuesday, December 24, 2024)

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s topic – “Who the hell?” – is pretty cryptic and it took me a while to figure it out.

Below we’ve put together some useful hints for Strands #296, as well as answers should it come to that. We’ll start with some hints before moving on to the full answer for Strands #296. So read on if you need a little help.

Warning: There are spoilers for Strands #296.

Today’s Answer from NYT Strands – Today’s Topic and Notes

The official theme for NYT Strands #296 is… “Who the hell…?”

And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “And you are?”

If you are still in the dark, here are some useful words that will give you the valuable clue tokens:

CULL
RULE
MEN
TOLL
DISEASE
CULT
INVOICE

Are you still having problems? The Spangram gives you a clue to the connecting word. Today it starts with N and ends with S.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s NATURENAMES.

Today’s Strands Answers

So what are today’s Strands answers for game #296?

Drum roll please…

HOLLY
BACH
FLOW
LAUREL
PASTURE
CLEMENTINE

Strands #296

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…and the spangram was NATURENAMES.

Strands #296

“Who in the world…?”

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Hello Strands fans. That was a tough one! “Who the hell…?” is a clever theme, but I’m afraid I didn’t figure out how clever it was until my second-to-last move.

I actually stumbled across a few answers without knowing what I was looking for. I found HOLLY in the top right corner, followed by BROOK in the bottom right. Then I found RIVER on the left.

But even though I was three answers down, I still had no idea what the connection between the three words was, so I used a hint. Then another.

These showed LAUREL on the bottom left and WILLOW on the right. Then I finally made the connection when I stumbled upon the “nature” part of Spangram: NATURENAMES. These are all words that can both describe something in nature and be the name of a person!

With that in mind, getting last was trivial. I connected CLEMENTINE in the top left corner and solved the puzzle.

Yesterday’s Strands answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? The full article on yesterday’s Strands responses can be found here Game #295 here.

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