Can I help you a little today? Today's puzzle - the "print edition" - is very easy to decode, but some of its answers may be a bit hard to tease.

Below we've compiled some useful tips for Strand#99 and the answer to that. We'll start with a few clues before building the full answer for Strand #99, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers are ahead for Strand #99.  

The official theme of NYT Strand #99 is:.. "It's been a long time," he said.

And here's an unofficial tip from me: "Read all about it!"

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 'N' and ends with 'R'.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's a newspaper.

So what is Strand's answer today for game #99

Drumroll, please...

...And the spangram was a newspaper.

Chain #99

"Print edition"

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hi chain. Perhaps it's up to my past 10 years of publishing (although there are only occasional jobs in magazines and newspapers), but the clues of the "print edition" quickly reveal to me so much that, in fact, I got spangram in my first move, watching the word newspaper spelled from top to bottom and split the board into two.I got spangram in my first move,

From there, it was just a case of finding words that had something to do with the print media, but it wasn't that difficult.  The

column was spelled in the upper right corner, and the FOLIO was on the other side on the left. There was an article just below it, but it's a bit hard to see because it's spelled backwards. I finished the left half of the caption board cleanly.

The right side of the board was a little more about a layout with two four-letter words- fold and page- immediately popping out. It simply left BYLINE to complete the puzzle.

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article of yesterday's Strand answer for game #98 right here.