NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, May 26 (game #84)

And so the weekend comes to an end with another Strands game from the New York Times. It’s potentially a tricky beast, as many of them are, so read on if you need some hints for it.  

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

Your Strands expert

Your Strands expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today (game #84) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #84) – hint #2 – clue words

NYT Strands today (game #84) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #84) – hint #4 – spangram position

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

NYT Strands today (game #84) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #84, are…

• HILL
• BROOKS
• CASH
• PAISLEY
• SWIFT
• URBAN
• TWAIN
• SPANGRAM: COUNTRYSTARS

• My rating: Moderate
• My score: Perfect

This is one of those Strands games where the theme clue potentially makes it very easy – but where that may not help if you don’t know a lot about the subject. The subject in question is COUNTRYSTARS, as per the spangram, though whether Taylor SWIFT can really be described as a country star these days is debatable.

Fortunately for me, I’m a huge Johnny CASH fan, and though none of the other musicians listed here and on my personal playlist, I know enough about the genre that I didn’t struggle to find any of them. Maybe I would have done if the spangram hadn’t been so easy to locate, but with that in place much of the hard work was done.  

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Saturday 25 May, game #83)

• TIME
• STAKE
• MOOSE
• LEAK
• CHILLY
• MEET
• PAIR
• SERIAL
• SPANGRAM: HOMOPHONES