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Today’s NYT Strands Hints and Answer for April 12th 2025

Master NYT Strands with the latest tips to improve your game

Written By : Shiva Ganesh

NYT Strands is a word game created by The New York Times as part of its growing “Games” library. This New York Times game aims to connect letters in a six-by-eight grid to form a bunch of words that share the same theme.

To get you started, the puzzle will give you a theme for today’s NYT Strands. You can use it to form multiple “theme” words which will be relevant to this theme, along with one “special” word called the Spangram. This is a word or phrase that spans the length of the grid, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, giving you the key to crack the rest of the Strands theme words.

The theme for today’s Strands can be relevant in many different ways. So, the puzzle keeps you on your toes every day with its intriguing set of theme words and Spangrams.

NYT Strands Hints for Today’s Theme: “Get your mind out of the gutter”

The theme for today’s Strands on April 12, 2025, is — Get your mind out of the gutter

If you can’t figure out answers for today’s puzzle, here’s a quick Strands hint — when something’s soiled, dusty, or unwashed.

Here are hints for a couple of Strands theme words to make it easy for you to solve today’s puzzle on your own without having to scroll down to view the answers:

  • Hint #1: a term to describe a person who has an untidy or dishevelled appearance.

  • Hint #2: to leave a mark on something difficult to remove.

NYT Strands Spangram Hint: Is It Vertical or Horizontal?

The Spangram for today’s Strands on April 12, 2025, is mostly VERTICAL. It starts with the letters “DI“.

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — an offensive or indecent expression which is in this instance is relevant to something that’s unclean.

Today’s NYT Strands Answers for April 12, 2025

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands on April 12, 2025, is — DirtyWords

All Theme Words in Today’s Strands

Still looking for the theme words to get the answers for today’s NYT Strands? You can check them out below:

  • FILTHY

  • GRIMY

  • UNKEMPT

  • MUDDY

  • STAINED

  • POLLUTED 

The answers for today’s Strands were pretty straightforward. As soon as I read the theme, I knew what it could be about. Once I spotted DIRTY, solving the Spangram and the theme words was an easy affair.

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