Can I help you a little today? Today's puzzle - homemade" - is not particularly difficult to decipher, but some of the answers may be.

Below we've compiled some useful tips for Strand#80 and the answer to that. We'll start with a few clues before building the full answer for Strand #80, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Strand #80.  

The official theme of NYT Strand #80 is:.. "The house has grown."

And here's an unofficial tip from me: "Chop in some taste."

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give those valuable clue tokens:

Still struggling? Spangram will give you tips about connecting words. Today, it starts with 'H' and ends with 'N'.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's a herb garden.

So what is the answer for today's strand in game #80?

Drum roll, please...

...And the spangram was a herb garden.

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hi chain. It's pretty simple today. When I saw the theme was "homemade", my heart quickly turned to gardening, especially herbs and spices- and sure enough, I saw the parsley spelled backwards and snake upwards from the left side

So the herb theme was confirmed, I was halfway through and I quickly found basil hiding in the bottom right for my second. It was immediately followed by rosemary to its left, and it showed me a likely starting point for spangram- HERBGARDEN- crossed the board from left to right.

There were 3 left. Time was my last on the bottom half of the board, leaving two on top. SAGE WAS NICE AND EASY, BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT DECODING REDNCRIAO TOOK ME A FEW MOMENTS. I finally got there: coriander!

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article of yesterday's Strand answer for game #79 right here.