Hints And Answers For Sunday, March 9

Looking for Saturday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:

ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Today: Hints And Answers For Saturday, March 8By Paul Tassi

New Strands for the weekend here and some pet owners may find it easier than some of the others.

How To Play Strands

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in beta for now, which means it’ll only stick around if enough people play it every day.

There’s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.

You’ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram links two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy]

Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”

What Is Today’s Strands Hint?

NYT hint comes first followed by one that I will invent on my own. Here is the NYT hint first:

Kitty Corner

Mine is:

Feline Frenzy

This may be a little misleading? We’ll see.

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

We will start with the spangram and the full list of answers will be below that. Here is the spangram:

CATBEHAVIOR

And where you find it:

And the full answer list:

• SNUGGLE
• PURR
• SWAT
• HISS
• BLINK
• STRETCH
• POUNCE

At first I thought this was going to be different breeds of cats but I figured out pretty quickly that it was not. I was a little surprised to not see “meow” on the list here, but I guess you can’t do everything. But “blink”? That one seemed a bit odd and not like it’s cat-specific or anything, but I guess they ran out of five letter words.

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