Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Wednesday's Strands board pairs up the classics: six theme words from folk and fairy tales, including both halves of a famous pair and the two racers from the oldest slow-and-steady story, plus a 13-letter spangram that is how every one of those tales begins. The NYT clue calls them folk and fairy tale twosomes.
Hints, in order
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Think of the stories told at bedtime for centuries, and the pairs inside them: a beauty and her beast, a princess and her frog, a hare and his tortoise.
Every theme word is a character from those tales: two from one love story, two from a race, and a princess with the frog she meets.
The spangram is four short words pushed together, 13 letters: the opening line of every fairy tale there is.
Spangram and theme words
The spangram first, then all six theme words.