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1.Today’s hints
2.Today’s answer
3.Yesterday’s answer
Need some assistance with NYT Strands today?
Today’s theme “O ___!
is not only tricky to decode, but the answers aren’t obvious either.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #321.
And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “Fictional authority figures (or maybe heroes)”.
The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word.
Today, it starts with C and ends with N.
Scroll down to find out what it is… ## Today’s Strands answers
So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #321?
Drumroll, hey…
…and the spangram was CAPTAIN.
Strands #321
O ___!
This was an annoyingly tricky puzzle.
It turns out that the theme of “O ___!
refers to the Walt Whitman poem “Oh Captain!
My Captain”, but that’s something it took me a clue to figure out.
but coming up empty I used a clue which revealed HOOK.
The remaining answers proved tricky.
There were two answers on the bottom half, and neither jumped out to me.
Yesterday’s Strands answers
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