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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme — “Get your mind out of the gutter” — is a little confusing, even with a few answers on the board.
Below, we’ve compiled some useful hints for Strands #405, 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 #405, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #405.
Today’s NYT Strands answer — Today’s theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #405 is… “Get your mind out of the gutter”.
And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “In need of a clean”.
If you’re still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with D and ends with S.
Scroll down to find out what it is…
It’s DIRTYWORDS.
Today’s Strands answers
So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #405?
Drumroll, please…
…and the spangram was DIRTYWORDS.
Strands #405
“Get your mind out of the gutter”
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Hi Strands fans. A quality pun from the NYT puzzle setters today. With hindsight, “Get your mind out of the gutter” could only be about DIRTYWORDS – or rather, words referring to things that are unclean.
I didn’t cotton onto that right away, so needed a clue to get started. That revealed GRIMY along the left-hand side, which put me on the right track. I followed this up with MUDDY spelt backwards from the middle of the grid to the top, and POLLUTED in the bottom-right corner.
STAINED was in the top-right corner, and when I found “words” in the top half of the grid, the spangram finally clicked. I wrote out DIRTYWORDS backwards from the bottom of the board to the top.
Two answers were still at large. FILTHY was in the top-left corner, and that just left UNKEPT in the bottom left 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 #404 right here.
