NEW Strands Today — Hints, Spangrams and Answers for Game #272 (Saturday, November 30, 2024)

On November 30, 2024By Littum

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s Theme – “Yas Queen!” — is a tough one that requires a bit of (slightly dated) knowledge of pop culture.

Below we have collected some useful tips for Strands #272, as well as the answers should it come to that. We’ll start with some clues before building up to the full answer for Strands #272, so read on if you need some help.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Strands #272.

Today’s NYT Strand’s answer — Today’s theme and hints

The official theme of NYT Strands #272 is… “Yes Queen!”

And here’s an unofficial tip from me: “Freddie, Brian, Roger and John”.

If you’re still in the dark, here are some helpful words to give you those valuable clues:

SOMA
BEAR
FREE
YEAR
SCOPE
COMAS
MOSEY

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connecting word. Today it starts with ‘B’ and ends with ‘Y’.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s BOHEMIANRHAPSODY.

Dagens Strand’s answer

So what is today’s Strands response to game #272?

Drumroll, please…

FAN
LIFE
GENUINE
FANTASY
WIND
EASY
COME

Thread #272

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the framework was BOHEMIANRHAPSODY.

Thread #272

“Yes Queen!”

Hello Strand’s fans. This was a difficult puzzle and I only used a clue due to a huge amount of luck.

I was completely lost at first, with no idea what the theme was – “Yas Queen!” – could mean. Turns out the capitalization of the ‘Q’ was crucial, referring to the glam rock band from the 70s and 80s, but I didn’t know that when I was collecting words for the clue section above and at accidentally found “BLOWS”.

As I continued to look for clues, I realized I could spell “rhapsody” and the theme finally clicked. I followed it backwards to spell Queen’s biggest hit BOHEMIANRHAPSODY and suddenly the board opened up.

It still wasn’t that easy as I’m not one to have all the lyrics of the song etched in my mind. But things were made a little simpler by the fact that both REAL and LIFE were blocked off at the top corners of the span frame. FANTASY was also an obvious one, and it blocked WIND nicely in the lower right.

Two words were left to find in the middle of the grid, and I got them in the same order as they are in the song: EASY, then COME to complete the puzzle.

Yesterday’s Strand’s answer

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the entire article about yesterday’s Strand’s answer for game #271 right here.