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NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #335 (Saturday, February 1 2025)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Hunt and peck" — is rather confusing at first, but becomes clear with the first answer on the board.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #335, 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 #335, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #335.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #335 is... "Hunt and peck".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Winged carnivores".

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

  • WORKS
  • PARTS
  • PROPS
  • SPORE
  • PAGE
  • LUST
  • CROPS
  • VAST
  • VAPOR

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

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's RAPTORS.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #335?

Drumroll, please...

  • HAWK
  • VULTURE
  • FALCON
  • KESTREL
  • CONDOR
  • EAGLE
  • OSPREY
(Image credit: Alan Martin)

...and the spangram was RAPTORS.

Strands #335

“Hunt and peck”

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Hi Strands fans. Today's puzzle baffled me at first, but it really shouldn't have. What hunts and pecks? Birds of prey, of course.

So I regret using a clue, because as soon as I had it was obvious. The clue revealed HAWK, and I quickly spotted VULTURE in the top left and FALCON diagonally underlining it a space apart.

That space was filled easily with the spangram of RAPTORS, which was a bit of a relief as I was previously looking for a way to expand "prey" into something longer without luck.

I found KESTREL along the left-hand side next, followed by CONDOR to its right. I then bagged EAGLE in the top-left which meant only OSPREY (the word that had me looking for "prey" as part of the spangram earlier) remained 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 #334 right here.

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