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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme — “Pixar this” — is pretty obvious, but needs some reasonably deep knowledge to complete.
Below, we’ve compiled some useful hints for Strands #325, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We’ll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #325, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #325.
Today’s NYT Strands answer — Today’s theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #325 is… “Pixar this”.
And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “One-word cartoon movies”.
If you’re still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- DRAWN
- BRAWN
- WARNED
- MELT
- MINED
- ROUND
- TILE
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with A and ends with N.
Scroll down to find out what it is…
It’s ANIMATION.
Today’s Strands answers
So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #325?
Drumroll, please…
- RATATOUILLE
- CARS
- BRAVE
- ONWARD
- SOUL
- ELEMENTAL
…and the spangram was ANIMATION.
Strands #325
“Pixar this”
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Hi Strands fans. Even if you’ve seen every Pixar movie (I’m on about 80%, having not seen Brave, The Good Dinosaur or any of the Cars movies), today’s one isn’t as easy as you might expect. That’s because only one-word titles are eligible, meaning no Toy Story, The Incredibles, Inside Out or Finding Nemo.
Still, I was able to cross off a big segment of the board straight away, when I remembered how to spell RATATOUILLE, which was in the bottom-right corner. I then found CARS and BRAVE above it along the top of the board.
You’d have thought getting two I hadn’t seen would set me up nicely, but it turns out some of the ones I had seen are somewhat forgettable.
So it took me some time to remember that ONWARD exists, but that helped me find SOUL – which I really did like (and, controversially, I might call the last great original Pixar made).
This cleared enough space to get the spangram: ANIMATION. And that meant the last movie was sitting as an anagram in the bottom-left corner. After a little decoding, I realized it was ELEMENTAL – a movie I actually saw with a cast and crew Q&A at the BFI just 19 months ago. How quickly we forget, eh?
Yesterday’s Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday’s Strands answers for game #324 right here.
