Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Today's Strands board is a night at the comedy club: five theme words for kinds and forms of comedy, plus the spangram, the long word that runs from one side of the board to the other and names the whole enterprise of being funny for a living.
Hints, in order
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Think of what is on stage: not the comics themselves, but the styles of comedy they perform.
Every theme word is a form of comedy: one physical and knockabout, one made up on the spot, one drawn as a short scene, one exaggerated and absurd, and one that began as a stage spectacle.
One long word runs edge to edge: two everyday words pushed together, the adjective for amusing plus the word for a trade or enterprise. It is also a phrase for acting suspiciously.
Spangram and theme words
The spangram first, then all five theme words.