Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Spacing out,” seems pretty broad at first, but you can quickly narrow it down with the first answer

Below are some helpful hints for Strand #205 and the answer when you need it We'll start with the hints and then continue with the full answer to Strand #205

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #205

The official theme for NYT Strands #205 is “Spacing”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “Take me to your reader”

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 conjunctive words Today it starts with 'S' and ends with 'N'

Scroll down to see what it is

SCIENCEFICTION

Now, what is the answer to today's Strand game #205?

Drumroll, please

Spangram was SCIENCEFICTION

Strands #205

“Spacing out”

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Hello Strands fans! Today's puzzle took me a while to figure out because the theme was “Spacing out” and it seemed a bit sketchy At first I thought it was an astronomy problem, but when I couldn't find any planets, galaxies, NASA technology, etc, I decided I was going in the wrong direction

Fortunately, I then watched “ALIEN” and realized that this was on the more fanciful end of the cosmic spectrum Sure enough, when I saw the SCIENCEFICTION spangram spelled out from top to bottom, I stayed away

Since the spangram and my existing answer neatly coded ROBOT, I then got it MARTIAN was in the upper left corner, followed by DROID below it

The only two answers left were in the lower left corner, both spelled backwards This puzzled me for a moment, but when I found MUTANT, I realized that the remaining stray “Y” was part of the CYBORG to complete the puzzle

Are you reading this later in the day? You can read the full article about Strand's solution to yesterday's game 204 here