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Hints for Strands #450
Use these in order if you want to preserve some of the solve:
- The theme is “A strange new world.”
- Think of dystopian fiction and look for familiar book titles split into two words.
- The six in-game hint words are DAYS, MALE, HAND, DINNER, LATER, and PAGES.
- The spangram has 14 letters. The guide reports that it starts at the left edge of row one and ends at the right edge of row five.
Spoiler break: full answers
The following list reveals every answer for the May 27, 2025 puzzle.
- FARM
- GAMES
- ANIMAL
- TALE
- HUNGER
- HANDMAIDS
- Spangram: DYSTOPIAN NOVEL
How the theme fits
The regular words form three dystopian-book titles when paired: ANIMAL + FARM makes Animal Farm; HUNGER + GAMES makes The Hunger Games; and HANDMAIDS + TALE points to The Handmaid’s Tale. The grid entry is HANDMAIDS, while the book’s conventional title is possessive: “Handmaid’s.”
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TechRadar’s contemporaneous answer guide supplies the hints and solution; a second guide corroborates the game number, theme, answers, and title pairings. No primary New York Times archive page for this historical puzzle was located, so these puzzle details are reported by those guides rather than presented as an independently verified NYT archive record.
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