Today's NYT Strands Tips, Answers and Help for January 4th #307

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When I saw today’s topic strands For the Literary Couples puzzle, I assumed that it would involve the names of married writers, such as F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. (Hey, New York Times Games editors, free idea for a future topic!) Spoiler: That’s not it. Think of “literature pairs” not as people, but as pairs of words in their book titles. If you need hints and answers, read on.

I will also go into this in detail Rules for Strands in this story.

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Clue for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands topic is: Literary couples

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Like “War and Peace” or “Sense and Sensibility.”

Clue words to unlock clues in the game

Your goal is to find hidden words that match the theme of the puzzle. If you get stuck, find all the words you can. Every time you find three words with four or more letters, Strands reveals one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get these clues, but any words with four or more letters that you find will work:

SITE, SITED, SLIT, BOOM, SHIM, SHINE, TILE, TIED, TIRED, CUBE

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that fit the topic. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that extends from one side of the puzzle to the other. Once you have them all (I originally thought it would always be eight, but learned the number can vary), every letter on the board is used. Here are the non-Spangram answers: