NEW Strands Today — Hints, Spangrams and Answers for Game #292 (Friday, December 20, 2024)

On December 22, 2024By Littum

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme – “morning bites” – is not too hard if you are familiar with a certain set of products.

Below we have collected some useful tips for Strands #292, 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 #292, so read on if you need some help.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Strands #292.

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

The official theme of NYT Strands #292 is… “Breakfast”.

And here’s an unofficial tip from me: “Just add milk.”

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

POPCORN
CHEAP
CLEAN
CHAPEL
CARE
SLACK
FACE

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

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s GRAIN.

Dagens Strand’s answer

So what is today’s Strands response to Game #292?

Drumroll, please…

FLAKE
TASTE
PEBBLE
CHARM
CRUNCH
POOF
CHEERIO
LOOP

Thread #292

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the span frame was KORN.

Thread #292

“Breakfast”

Hello Strand’s fans. Is this a US centric one? Maybe, but maybe cereal labels are an international language, as I had no trouble figuring out each of the types without using any clues.

Of course, it helped that I found the spanframe of CEREAL across the center of the grid right away, splitting the board neatly into two halves.

I started on the bottom half first and found FLAKE on the left with SMACK just below it. I then saw PEBBLE in the lower right corner and then finished the section by connecting CHARM.

The top half was just as straightforward. I found CRUNCH in the upper right corner, followed by PUFF diagonally below it. CHEERIO was wrapped around itself on the top two rows, leaving just LOOP 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 #291 right here.