Can I help you a little today? The theme of today's puzzle - "Boots and saddle" - is very easy to complete once you have a handle on what it means

Below we've compiled some useful tips for Strand#194 and the answer to that We'll start with a few clues before building the full answer for Strand #194, so read on if you need a little help

Warning: Spoilers are ahead for Strand #194  

The official theme of NYT Strand #194 is: "Boots and saddles"

And here is an unofficial tip from me: "Wanted, dead or alive"

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give those valuable clue tokens:

Still struggling? Spangram will give you tips about connecting words Today, it starts with 'W' and ends with 'S'

Scroll down to find out what it is

It's a westerns

So what is the answer for today's strand in game #194?

Drum roll, please

And Spangram was a westerns

Chain #194

"Boots and saddles"

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hi chain As long as you're familiar with Western tropes (or, in my case, it's taking too long to play Red Dead Redeemption2), you won't be taxed too much here 

As soon as I saw the theme of "Boots and saddles," I was sure it would be about cowboys In fact, when I saw the word "cowboy" spelled backwards from the top right of the grid to the other side, I was sure it would be a spangram That wasn't actually the answer: it was just cowboys without an "S", but I found the actual spangram-WESTERNS - just below it

From there, it was just a case of emptying my mind of all the cowboy movie cliches around The sheriff and duel quickly enough rounded up the upper half, and it was in the lower segment

This was a bit tricky But eventually I realized that the double "O" was likely to be part of the saloon, outlawing the words below it Is it just reading this in the time zone after Yee Ho

in which I can ride off to the sunset of the puzzle for another day to find the bounty and the horse on the left to finish the puzzle cleanly? You can find the full article of yesterday's Strand answer for game #193 right here