Having trouble with the NYT Strand puzzle? Today's puzzle theme, “Book it!” is the subject of this puzzle.

Below are the clues and answers for Strands #148. First, here are some hints before the answer to Strands #148.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #148.

The official theme for NYT Strands #148 is... “Booking.”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “A Place to Learn.”

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

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with 'P' and ends with 'Y'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

PUBLICLIBRARY.

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

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was PUBLICLIBRARY.

Strand #148

“Book it!”

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Hello Strand fans, it doesn't take a genius to know that the clue “Book it!” is probably book-related. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the “Book it!” clue is probably related to a book. But of course, it could be anything from a famous work of fiction to an author.

Thankfully, I saw the word “library” and immediately recognized it as neither. When the word was not adopted, I realized that it was part of a much longer spangram. I joined the two together to form PUBLICLIBRARY.

With the board split in two and the theme established, the rest was easy: I picked up “BROWSE,” “BORROW,” and “LEARN” from top to bottom on the right side and moved them to the left.

There were four words in this section of the grid, which was a bit tricky, but not by much: “READ” and “STUDY” were at the bottom of the board, and “MEET” was just above them.

The final anagram for “EWRNE” gave me pause, but there were only so many things it could be, and I finally came up with “RENEW” to complete the puzzle.

Reading this late in the day? You can read the full article about Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 147 here.