NYT Strands puzzle #618 for Tuesday, November 11, 2025, has the theme “Aesop’s animals.” Use the hints below if you want to preserve the solve; the complete word list and spangram are farther down behind a spoiler warning.
Hints for the November 11 Strands puzzle
- The theme points to animals associated with fables by Aesop.
- The spangram names the kind of pair at the heart of the theme.
- Look for eight animal names among the theme words.
How Strands works
Strands is a New York Times word-search-style game. Its theme words share a connection, and the spangram summarizes that connection while linking sides of the grid. Forbes describes the board as a six-by-eight letter grid, with words traced vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Its guide says that finding three valid off-theme words of at least four letters earns a hint that highlights one theme word. Forbes’ November 11 guide explains these rules.
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Spoilers: November 11 Strands answers
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The spangram is FABLED PAIR (sometimes written without a space as FABLEDPAIR). The other theme words are:
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- BULL
- CRANE
- GNAT
- HARE
- LION
- MOUSE
- TORTOISE
- WOLF
The theme is “Aesop’s animals.” TechRadar’s dated answer guide and Forbes’ guide independently list the same spangram and words; a date-indexed Strands answer archive also matches.
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