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NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #331 (Tuesday, January 28 2025)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Stable supply" — isn't hugely subtle, but still relies on you knowing about the topic.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #331, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #331, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #331.

Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #331 is... "Stable supply".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Listen to the neigh-sayers".

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

  • BOING
  • SIRE
  • DRUIDS
  • SHINER
  • SHIRK
  • HARES
  • ROPE

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with H and ends with G.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's HORSEBACKRIDING.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #331?

Drumroll, please...

  • CROP
  • SADDLE
  • BRIDLE
  • REINS
  • SPURS
  • HARNESS
(Image credit: Alan Martin)

...and the spangram was HORSEBACKRIDING.

Strands #331

“Stable supply”

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Hi Strands fans. This one was pretty taxing, but only because I don't know much about horses. With a theme like "Stable supply", this was only ever going to be about horses.

But despite not having many of the answers on the tip of my tongue, it turns out I knew all of the words. They just took a little effort to extract from the depths of my brain's internal dictionary.

I found CROP along the bottom of the grid first, followed by SADDLE to its right.

Now it was clear about equine matters, I hunted for the word "horse" which I found, but which didn't register. I expanded it to "horseback" which still didn't connect, so made it a bit longer to spell HORSEBACKRIDING and finally get the spangram.

That cordoned off BRIDLE in the top-right corner, and I then found REINS just underneath the middle of the spangram. Below the start of it was SPURS spelt backwards, and that just left HARNESS in the bottom-left corner to complete the puzzle.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #330 right here.

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