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Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 30, 2026

NYT theme clue: "All charged up" · Edited by Tracy Bennett

Today's Strands board is all about electricity: six theme words for power in its everyday forms - the flow in a wire, the spark in the air, and the slang word for electricity itself - plus the spangram, the phrase for what a device is when its cord sits in the wall.

Hints, in order

Hint 0 of 3

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Hint 1 of 3

The clue says it plainly: everything on this board is about electricity and being powered up. Think outlets, cords and charges.

Hint 2 of 3

Every theme word names power or its flow: what runs through a wire, the force itself, the full scientific word for it, the slang word for it, a tiny discharge in the air, and what a battery stores.

Hint 3 of 3 - Spangram

One nine-letter spangram runs edge to edge and describes a device with its cord in the wall, in two words run together. It starts with P and ends with N.

Spangram and theme words

The spangram first, then all six theme words.

SPANGRAM
PLUGGEDIN
CURRENTTheme word
ELECTRICITYTheme word
ENERGYTheme word
JUICETheme word
POWERTheme word
SPARKTheme word
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