Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Today's Strands board is a personnel file: five theme words, and every one names the people who do the work - from the crew as a whole to the department that hires them, which is also the spangram, stretched across the board in two plain words joined into one.
Hints, in order
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Take the clue literally: every theme word is about the people who get a job done - who they are, what they are called, and the office that hires them.
The five words are LABOR, PEOPLE, PERSONNEL, STAFF and WORKFORCE. Three of them name the workers as a group, one names the employees of a single place, and one is the formal word for all the staff on file.
The spangram is fourteen letters and reads as two everyday words joined together: the department every company has for hiring, paying and looking after its people.
Spangram and theme words
The spangram first, then all five theme words.