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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
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...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.