NYT Strands on the present time — hints, solutions and spangram for Monday, August 26 (recreation #176)

Strands is the NYT’s most up-to-date word recreation after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s valuable fun. It’d be complex, though, so be taught on for my Strands hints.

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Your Strands knowledgeable

NYT Strands on the present time (recreation #176) – imprint #1 – on the present time’s theme

NYT Strands on the present time (recreation #176) – imprint #2 – clue phrases

Play any of these phrases to unlock the in-recreation hints system.

• VOLE
• VOICE
• MICE
• MEAN
• SHELF
• ROGER

NYT Strands on the present time (recreation #176) – imprint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands on the present time (recreation #176) – imprint #4 – spangram arrangement

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NYT Strands on the present time (recreation #176) – the solutions

The solutions to on the present time’s Strands, recreation #176, are…

• VOLLEY
• SLICE
• RACKET
• SMASH
• LOVE
• FOREHAND
• SERVE
• SPANGRAM: GRANDSLAM

• My rating: Easy
• My rating: Ideal

My one criticism of on the present time’s Strands is that the spangram doesn’t in fact sum up the sport, because it’s speculated to. GRANDSLAM is indeed a tennis-connected timeframe – nonetheless it’s no longer the final thought here. If it were, the solutions might perhaps maybe be insist to big slam occasions reminiscent of Wimbledon and the US Birth, however clearly they’re no longer – they’re upright ‘phrases connected with tennis’. That is a shrimp bit silly, unbiased?

Anyway, that apart here is a wonderfully acceptable Strands puzzle. Although you are no longer a tennis nut (I bask in it properly sufficient, however I’m no longer one of those) you ought to easy get it somewhat easy, because they’re all properly-known phrases and no longer horribly tricky to search out.

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The day old to this’s NYT Strands solutions (Sunday 25 August, recreation #175)

• PINE
• WILLOW
• MAPLE
• SYCAMORE
• GINKGO
• CHESTNUT
• BEECH
• SPANGRAM: FOREST

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