Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Helpful Helpers,” is not that difficult to decipher, and once discovered, should not take long to complete

Below are some helpful hints for Strand #199 and the answers when you need them We'll start with the hints and then go on to the full answer to Strand #199

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #199

The official theme for NYT Strands #199 is “Useful Helpers”

And here's an unofficial tip from me: “DIY Time

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

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctive words Today it starts with “t” and ends with “t”

Scroll down to see what it is

TOOLCHEST

Now, what is the answer to today's Strand game #199?

Drumroll please

Spangram was the TOOLCHEST

Strands #199

“Handy helpers”

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Hello Strands fans! To be honest, I am a little disappointed that I used the opening clue here For some reason, I got caught up in the idea of the “hand” part of the theme instead of the “hand” part Otherwise, I would have figured out earlier that this was a story about handiwork!

Anyway, the clues didn't help much and the word KNIFE was revealed Cutlery (forks, spoons, chopsticks!) ) in vain, I suddenly found LEVEL and realized that this was about utensils

Sure enough, I had the TOOLCHEST spangram spelled backwards in the middle of the board; WRENCH completed the bottom half and PLIERS started on the top section

SCREWDRIVER took up most of the remaining letters and the only word left was HAMMER

Are you reading this in a later time zone than this? The full article on Strand's solution to yesterday's game #198 can be found here