Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Strumming right along...” . - It's not too hard to decipher, but it does require knowledge of a specific area.

Below, I've compiled some helpful hints for Strand #248, as well as some answers if you need them. We will start with the hints and then lead you to the full solution for Strand #248.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #248.

The official theme for NYT Strands #248 is... “Strumming right along.”

And here's an unofficial tip from me: “make beautiful music”

If you're still in the dark, here are some handy words that will give you valuable hint tokens:

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctive words. Today it starts with 'S' and ends with 'Y'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

It's STRINGY.

Now, what's the answer to today's strand?

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was STRINGY.

Strand #248

“Strumming right along ...”

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Hello Strand fans! This puzzle is as easy as any Strand puzzle. Actually, this theme, besides strings, “Strumming right along... I had a hard time coming up with the word “Strumming”.

That thought was quickly betrayed when I found GUITAR in the upper left corner and VIOLIN in the lower left corner. I then looked for the word “string” and a way to make it cross the board to be a spangram, and sure enough, I was able to spell it STRINGY.

UKULELE was just below it, and SITAR was diagonally to the right of it. The remainder of the grid was connected HARP to complete the lower half of the grid.

Two answers remained in the top half, starting between GUITAR and SPANGRAM, finding MANDOLIN first, and only one word left to find; it didn't take long to figure out that this must be BANJO, as the 'J' stood out.

Are you reading this in a slow time zone? The full article on Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 247 can be found here.