NYT Strands #26 Answers for March 29, 2024: “Pardon My French!”

Spoilers for the March 29, 2024, puzzle: the Strands #26 theme is “Pardon my French!” Its six theme words are BERET, CHAUFFEUR, BUREAU, APERITIF, CHIC, and LIAISON. The spangram is LOANWORDS.

Strands #26 answers for March 29, 2024

The theme clue, “Pardon my French!”, points to French-origin words adopted into English. LOANWORDS names the category.

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• BERET
• CHAUFFEUR
• BUREAU
• APERITIF
• CHIC
• LIAISON

Spangram: LOANWORDS

The answer list and theme are reported by Try Hard Guides. The individual words are listed as solutions; detailed etymologies for each are not established by that answer guide.

How the spangram fits

In Strands, the spangram describes the puzzle’s shared theme and touches opposite sides of the board. Here, LOANWORDS ties together the six French-origin English words.

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How Strands works

According to the answer guide, Strands is a word-search-style puzzle: connect letters in any direction, without reusing letters or crossing a word’s path. Find three non-theme words of at least four letters to earn a hint that highlights a theme answer. These mechanics are described by the answer guide and are not independently confirmed here against current official rules.

This is the historical puzzle for March 29, 2024, identified as Strands #26. The date and number are also corroborated by the Strands Hint archive; its page could not be opened. A Forbes result also uses the “Pardon my French!” theme wording.

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