NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, April 20 (game #48)

Our clues will help you solve the NYT's Strands today and keep that streak going

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News By Marc McLaren published 19 April 2024

(Image credit: New York Times)

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It's the weekend. Yay! And in keeping with the more relaxed nature of the day, this Strands puzzle is a little easier to solve than some. Yay again!

Strands is the latest addition to the New York Times' Games selection, joining the likes of Wordle and Connections. It's great fun, but can be tricky at times, so scroll down for my hints. Although as I said above, this one isn't necessarily too bad…

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

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Your Strands expertMarc McLaren

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a daily today's Wordle answer column and a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.

NYT Strands today (game #48) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Walk this way

NYT Strands today (game #48) - hint #2 - clue words

What are some good clue words today?

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• TRUTH

• TUSK

• STEER

• GRANT

• EDGE

• CLAM

NYT Strands today (game #48) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

• On foot

NYT Strands today (game #48) - hint #4 - spangram position

Where does today's spangram start and end?

• Start: left, 3rd row

• End: right, 6th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #48) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #48, are…

  • STROLL
  • STRUT
  • MARCH
  • AMBLE
  • TRUDGE
  • TREK
  • SAUNTER
  • SPANGRAM: PEDESTRIAN
  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

The clue here was 'Walk this way', and once I'd established that AEROSMITH wasn't an answer (and neither was RUN-DMC), it was obvious that what was needed was 'words associated with walking'. I couldn't find STRIDE, but uncovered STROLL, MARCH and TRUDGE early on, and the others followed easily enough afterwards.

The spangram might have been harder, but by then I'd revealed so much of the board that it was no great problem to find PEDESTRIAN and finish off the puzzle.

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