Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, "Envious? - It hit me right away, but some people may find it a little too unintelligible.

Below are some helpful hints and what-if answers for the 61st edition of the Strand. Start with a few hints to get the full answer to Strand #61.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #61.

The official theme of NYT Strands #61 is... "Envious?

And here's an unofficial hint from me: it's not easy being green.

If you're still in the dark, here's a handy word that gives you a valuable hint token:

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with "G" and ends with "S."

Scroll down to see what it is.

GREENS.

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

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was "GREENS."

Hints used: 0.

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Hello, Strand fans! I found a rather obvious theme today. I immediately recognized this theme because green is a color associated with jealousy.

In fact, this is the first time I found spangram before any of the other answers.

I confirmed that it was the shade of green and found that EMERALD was what I was looking for, starting above the 'S' in spangram. JUNGLE followed just below the first 'E'.

OLIVE was in the upper right corner, just waiting to be picked, and to its left was ARTICHOKE (a shade I've never heard of in the UK, but it makes sense!)

FOREST was directly below it, leaving only a tightly wound PISTACHIO in the bottom right segment to complete the game.

Are you reading this late in the day? The full article on Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 59 can be found here.