Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Medieval Wonders,” is not that difficult to decipher, but still requires a certain amount of knowledge about the period

Below is a list of tips for the 208th NYT Strand We will start with a few clues and then the complete answer to Strands #208

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #208

The official theme for NYT Strands #208 is “Medieval Wonders”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “To the ramparts!”

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

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions Today, it starts with a 'C' and ends with an 'E'

Scroll down to see what it is

CASTLE

Now, what's the answer to today's Strand game #208?

Drum roll please

Spangram was a CASTLE

Strands #208

“Medieval marvel”

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Hello Strands fans! At first I was a bit lost, thinking this was about medieval history, which I know very little about

However, while collecting words for the “hints and tokens” section above, I happened to find WALL and realized that this was about a particular structure On a hunch, I found MOAT to the right of it, and below that I found the spangram of CASTLE

From there it was pretty easy: DRAWBRIDGE was by far the biggest answer, directly below the spangram, and TOWER was tucked away to the lower left below it KEEP was neatly coded between the two

There were two remaining answers, both of which gave me pause The lower right TURRET was the first one I figured out, but the last answer in the upper right took a reasonably long time to figure out

But eventually I got there: courtyard

Are you reading this late in the day? The full article on the Strand's answer to yesterday's Round 207 can be found here