NYT Strands Today – Clues, Spangram and Answers for Game #229 (Friday October 18, 2024)

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Need some help with NYT Strands today? Today's topic – “All Clear” – is something of a brain teaser, even once you've figured out what's important.

Below we've put together some useful tips for Strands #229, as well as answers should it come to that. We'll start with some hints before moving on to the full answer for Strands #229. So read on if you need a little help.

Warning: There are spoilers for Strands #229.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #229 is… “All done.”

And here’s another unofficial note from me: “World cuisine.”

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

• CITY

• PANTS

• GIVER

• SAIL

• MOAN

• NASAL

• DEAN

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

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It's FANTASYLEAGUE.

Today's Strands Answers

So what are today's Strands answers for game #229?

Drum roll please…

• GYOZA

• SAMOSA

• WONTON

• RAVIOLI

• PIEROGI

• EMPANADA

…and the spangram was DUMPLINGS.

Strands #229

“Everything done”

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Hello Strands fans. This is another tricky issue, at least partly due to geography. In the UK, where I write, DUMPLINGS refers to a very specific suet-based addition to casseroles and stews. Even though I had heard of every answer in the riddle, none of them would qualify as dumplings in my eyes!

Luckily, my first answer appeared at the bottom of the screen: GYOZA. This told me what to expect in the rest of the puzzle, and I immediately found SAMOSA to the left and WONTON to the right.

When I connected DUMPLINGS I was just expecting this to be a different answer and not the Spangram. This certainly blew my mind as I looked for the remaining answers in the top half of the grid.

Next I found RAVIOLI in the top left corner (definitely not a dumpling for me!) but then I was stumped and had to use a hint. PIEROGI revealed this, so all that remained to be deciphered was the anagram of “ADNAEAPM”. After a bit of wrestling, I realized it had to be EMPANADA.

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 #228 here.