NYT Strands Today – Hints, Spangram and Answers for Game #285 (Friday December 13, 2024)

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme – “One for the Swifties” – is obvious, but that doesn’t help much if you’re not one (I’m not).

Below we’ve put together some useful tips for Strands #285, as well as answers if it comes to that. We’ll start with some hints before moving on to the full answer for Strands #285. So read on if you need a little help.

Warning: There are spoilers for Strands #285.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #285 is… “One for the Swifties”.

And here’s an unofficial reference from me: “Taylor time.”

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

LOSS
ROLL
MODEL
REMOVE
RATE
FELT
SMITH
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Are you still having problems? The Spangram gives you a clue about the connecting word. Today it starts with “A” and ends with “E”.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s ALBUM TITLE.

Today’s Strands Answers

So what are today’s Strands answers for game #285?

Drum roll please…

LOVER
ALWAYS
MIDNIGHT
FEARLESS
FOLKLORE

Strands #285

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the spangram was ALBUMTITLE.

Strands No. 285

“One for the Swifties”

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Hello Strands fans. My heart sank when I saw today’s theme: “One for the Swifties.” I’m not a Swiftie, and as such I knew I was going to have trouble today since I could barely name three Taylor Swift songs, let alone one of her albums.

Perhaps it’s surprising that I then managed to get an answer without using a hint. But the word LOVER in the bottom left corner definitely sounded like it could be a song title (I didn’t know they were albums yet), so I gave it a try and was rewarded with my first correct answer.

But this lucky streak couldn’t last and eventually I had to admit that I needed a clue. It revealed EVERMORE, which I never would have gotten, and that helpfully underlined “album” – part of the ALBUMTITLE spangram.

This locked up MIDNIGHTS in the bottom right corner for another freebie, but I had to use a second clue to separate my two final answers, which were intertwined at the top of the grid. It revealed FEARLESS, which meant I simply had to find FOLKLORE in the top left to solve 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 #284 here.

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NYT Strands Today – Hints, Spangram and Answers for Game #285 (Friday December 13, 2024)

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