Today’s Strands Hints and Clues for “Cutting it close”

Strands Answers (August 04, 2025): In this article, you will find the Strands answers and hints for August 04, 2025.

If you are tired of Wordle and Connections, Strands is another NYT game you can check out. It tasks players with locating multiple words in a 6×8 grid. It is a wonderful way to show off your vocabulary, but it can sometimes be challenging.

If you are struggling with today’s theme, you have landed at the right place. We will help you find today’s spangram and solve the puzzle with ease.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead! Only read on if you want to know today’s Strands answers.

Today’s Strands Theme

First, let’s look at today’s theme shared on the website.

Today’s theme is:

CUTTING IT CLOSE

Today’s NYT Strands Hints

If you need some hints to help you, I got you:

Strands Hint 1: What are the starting letters of today’s words?

There are seven words, including the spangram.

Below are the starting letters & lengths for each of the theme words:

• Starts with “A” and has 10 letters
• Starts with “C” and has four letters
• Starts with “C” and has eight letters
• Starts with “C” and has four letters
• Starts with “R” and has five letters
• Starts with “T” and has seven letters

And today’s spangram starts with “B”.

Strands Hint 2: Where are today’s words located on today’s Strands grid?

Here are some clues about their starting positions (for all words except the spangram):

• Six words start from the middle of the grid.

Today’s NYT Strands Clue Words

If you want to hit that Hint button on the Strands game, here are some words to help you out:

• THIR
• PIPERS
• FARTS
• LACE
• EARL
• PRIMER

The answers are right below.

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Today’s NYT Strands Spangram

Now the moment you’ve been waiting for!

Today’s Strands spangram is:

BARBERSHOP

Today’s NYT Strands Answers

The answers for today’s Strands are right here:

• AFTERSHAVE
• CAPE
• CLIPPERS
• COMB
• RAZOR
• TRIMMER

Yesterday’s NYT Strands Answer (August 3, 2025)

Still trying to solve yesterday’s Strands (Sunday, August 3, 2025)? Or reading from a different timezone? Don’t worry, we have the answers you need.

Find yesterday’s Strands answers, hints, and spangram here.

Yesterday’s Strands theme was:

“SORRY, DIDN’T CATCH THAT”

Yesterday’s spangram was:

SPORTSGOOF

Yesterday’s Strands answers were:

• BLOOPER
• BOBBLE
• ERROR
• FAULT
• FUMBLE
• MUFF
• WHIFF

With that, we’ve covered today’s Strands answers, hints, and spangram. If you’re passionate about word games, we have answers and solvers for nearly all NYT games. If you’re struggling with Wordle, our Wordle Solver is here to help. We also offer resources, like the Spelling Bee Solver and Connections Helper, for other NYT games.

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