Need a little help with the NYT Strand today, a rather nifty theme in the NYT that marched off in the wrong direction after my first word fell under a completely different definition of "line."

Below, I've compiled some helpful hints for Strand #60, as well as some answers when the time comes. We will start with the hints and then lead you to the full answer to Strand #60.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #60.

The official theme for NYT Strands #60 is...

"What's My Line?

And here's an unofficial hint from me: pattern matching.

If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that give you valuable hint tokens:

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

Scroll down to see what it is.

STRIPED.

Now, what's the answer to today's 60th game of Stranded?

Drum roll please.

... Spangram was STRIPED.

Hints used: 0.

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Hello Strands fans, we salute the NYT puzzle setters, and we hope you enjoy our newest puzzle. It is no coincidence that the theme is "What's my line?" - CLOWNFISH as the first choice has two different meanings.

CLOWNFISH is the word at the top of the list, which is exactly what I did. And my immediate thought was that "line" meant fishing line, so I went looking for other kinds of fish to catch.

It was only when I spotted a skunk nearby that I realized that "line" referred to the stripes on the clownfish and not the fishing line!

So I quickly found STRIPED as a spangram.

BUMBLEBEE finished the top segment nicely, and I realized the stray "Z" was for ZEBRA; CHIPMUNK was spelled neatly below it, and all that was left was to spell TIGER backwards from REGIT to complete the puzzle.

Reading this late in the day? Yesterday's full article on Strand's solution to Round 59 can be found here.