Need help with today's NYT Strands? Today's puzzle theme, "Heat and Diet," isn't quite as challenging, but it can still be a challenge to find some of the words.

Below is a list of clues and answers for Strands #121. Please read on if you need a little help, as we will first give you some hints and then get to the full solution to Strands #121.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #121.

The official theme of NYT Strands #121 is... "Heat and Eat."

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "In the kitchen."

If you're still not sure, here are a few useful words that give valuable hint tokens:

Still having trouble? Spangram gives us a hint on conjunctions. Today, it starts with a 'C' and ends with a 'G'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

COOKING.

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

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram is COOKING

Strands #121

"Heat and eat"

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Hello Stands fans! Today's puzzle was a bit tricky and probably exposed my lack of versatility in the kitchen. I'm a bit stuck without an oven, a stove, or a microwave. So I could easily figure out the cooking spangram, but I couldn't quite figure out how to do the actual food prep.

A little further down the road, I actually had to use the first word, the POACH clue. This was also to split up the board and make it easier to find other words. I connected COOKING in the middle of the board in the opposite direction.

It worked and I got STEAM in the upper right and SIMMER in the middle of the bottom half. As a result, the way was made for BLANCH.

As a result, it only needed to clear the top left corner, in which three words were hidden: BRAISE was the first to appear, spelling the top row backwards. FLAMBE followed just below it, and finally the answer DEGLAZE was revealed; GLAZE was one of the words I found while saving up the clue points, but it never occurred to me to put "DE" in front of it...) .

Are you reading this in a slow time zone? The full article about Strand's solution to yesterday's 120th round can be found here.