NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #384 (Saturday, March 22 2025)
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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "A good roast" — is rather misleading, until you get your first answer on the board.
Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #384, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #384, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #384.
The official theme for NYT Strands #384 is... "A good roast".
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Funny business".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
PLUCK
HEEL
CASE
RULE
LEEK
CRICK
LICKS
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with C and ends with P.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's CRACKINGUP.
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #384?
Drumroll, please...
HOWL
GIGGLE
LAUGH
CHUCKLE
ROAR
CACKLE
SHRIEK
...and the spangram was CRACKINGUP.
Strands #384
'A good roast'
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Hi Strands fans. I'm not sure today's theme - "A good roast" - is actually that helpful. Yes, comedy roasts exist, but is it the best way of hinting at laughter? I'm not so sure.
In any case, after failing in vain to find anything related to roast dinners, I reluctantly used a clue that revealed HOWL in the bottom-right corner. This, in itself, wasn't very useful, but when I realized that the three 'G's in the top-left corner were part of GIGGLE, everything became clear.
I quickly found LAUGH above HOWL, and CHUCKLE in the top-right corner. ROAR was directly below it, and I then spotted CACKLE on the left-hand side.
That cleared enough space to connect the spangram of CRACKINGUP spelt backwards from bottom to top of the grid. And that just left SHRIEK to find in the bottom-left corner to finish the puzzle.
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