Having trouble with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “A way with words,” is quite challenging, even if you know what it means right off the bat

Below we have compiled a list of hints and what-if answers for Strand #201 We will start with the hints and then lead you to the full answer to Strand #201

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #201

The official theme for NYT Strands #201 is Words”

And here's an unofficial tip from me: “Linguistic Terms”

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

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

Scroll down to see what it is

POETRY

Now, what's the answer to today's strand of game #201?

Drum roll please

Spangram was POETRY

Strands #201

“A way with words”

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Hello Strands fans! For the sake of this writing, I had to dig deep into my long dormant knowledge of school language terminology

However, I actually had no idea what I was talking about in the first place, and regrettably had to use hints As a result, I found that it was about linguistic terms for writing VERSE, and METER (which I had completely overlooked in my tendency to look for British spellings!) (which was my next discovery)

I found RHYME to its right, followed by a POETRY spangram in the center of the board This coded SYNTAX nicely and completed the bottom half of the board

My eye was immediately drawn to a stray “Z” in the top half of the grid, which I was able to connect to the word STANZA This split the top half in two, leaving two anagrams to decipher: DICTION on the right and SCANSION on the left

Are you reading this later in the hour? The full article about Strand's solution to yesterday's 200th game can be found here