Need help with today's NYT Strand puzzle? Today's puzzle theme, “Serve ginger-ly?” - is a difficult problem if you are not familiar with it

Below are the clues and solutions for Strand #182 We will start with the hints and then lead you to the full solution of Strand #182

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #182

The official theme for NYT Strands #182 is “Eating Gingerly?” Is

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “So shellfish”

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

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctive words Today, it starts with a 'C' and ends with an 'L'

Scroll down to see what it is

CALIFORNIAROLL

Now, what's the answer to today's strand?

Drumroll, please

Spangram was CALIFORNIAROLL

Strands #182

“Serve ginger-ly?”

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Hello Strands fans! If you're like me, you don't like seafood and have never had sushi, you're in real trouble Thanks to my pescatarian partner, I've heard of California rolls, but it would be hard for me to come up with all the ingredients on my own

So I had to use two clues first: first, crab, and second, mayo As a result, I was able to find the spelling AVOCADO in the lower right corner, and since I had already found the word “roll” lying in the middle of the grid, I remembered that there was a CALIFORNIAROLL, which completed the spangram

Now I knew the kind of answer I was looking for, and more importantly, the remaining three words were all written in fairly straight lines; CUCUMBER was easy to follow in the gap between AVOCADO and the spangram, and when I spotted “weed” in the lower left corner, it I knew immediately that it was part of SEAWEED Now the puzzle was complete with only RICE

Are you reading this in a slow time zone? The full article on Strand's solution to yesterday's game #181 can be found here