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Strands hints and answers for Sunday, October 11, 2026
Sunday's Strands board goes back in time: five theme words for the household and desk technology of an earlier era, plus a 12-letter spangram that describes the whole board in two pushed-together words. The NYT clue gets nostalgic.
Hints, in order
Hint 0 of 3Tap to show one hint at a time.
Hint 1 of 3
Think of the desk and the kitchen a century ago: how messages arrived, how writing got onto paper, and how food stayed cold.
Hint 2 of 3
Every theme word is an older way of doing a modern job: one keeps food cold, one holds ink, one beeps, one carries a message, and one types.
Hint 3 of 3
The spangram is two words pushed together, 12 letters: OLD plus the word for made or styled, as in fashioned from wood.
Spangram and theme words
The spangram first, then all five theme words.
SPANGRAM
OLDFASHIONED
ICEBOXTheme word
INKWELLTheme word
PAGERTheme word
TELEGRAMTheme word
TYPEWRITERTheme word
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