NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, June 10 (game #99)

The week gets off to a start with a potentially simple Strands puzzle from the NYT. But as always, your mileage may vary – so read on if you need some hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games. 

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #99) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #99) – hint #2 – clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• NICE
• PLACE
• PEAL
• LINE
• LODGE
• GLARE

NYT Strands today (game #99) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #99) – hint #4 – spangram position

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #99) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #99, are…

• COLUMN
• FOLD
• PAGE
• BYLINE
• FOLIO
• CAPTION
• ARTICLE
• SPANGRAM: NEWSPAPER

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

OK, so I have a bit of an advantage here, having worked on several newspapers (and many more magazines and websites) over the course of my career. If you’ve never been a journalist then answers such as FOLIO, BYLINE and FOLD might have been more difficult to find. But I say ‘might’, because I suspect this Strands puzzle will be relatively easy to solve even so. 

Much of that is down to a combination of the spangram and the theme clue, which is ‘Print edition’. There’s not much that the phrase can suggest, and it probably won’t have taken many people long to spot NEWSPAPER running down the middle of the board from top to bottom.

With that in place it will probably have been a simple matter to find some of the more obvious of the other answers, such as CAPTION and PAGE, and they will in turn have led to the others.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Sunday 9 June, game #98)

• SEEDS
• WATER
• SUNLIGHT
• EARTH
• SPACE
• LOVE
• PROTECTION
• SPANGRAM: GARDEN

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).

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