NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #435 (Monday, May 12 2025)
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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme — “A little respect” — is a little tricky until you have a couple of answers on the board.
Below, we’ve compiled some useful hints for Strands #435, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We’ll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #435, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #435.
Today’s NYT Strands answer — Today’s theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #435 is… “A little respect”.
And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “Earned, not given”.
If you’re still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- STAIN
- CARED
- RETCHED
- MANE
- REACT
- REACH
- STING
- RANGE
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with S and ends with D.
Scroll down to find out what it is…
It’s STREETCRED.
Today’s Strands answers
So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #435?
Drumroll, please…
- NAME
- STANDING
- REPUTATION
- CHARACTER
- STATURE
…and the spangram was STREETCRED
Strands #435
“A little respect”
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Hi Strands fans. I think I’m having a slow start to my week, because I really struggled to think of what “A little respect” could mean at first, and ended up using a clue.
When it revealed NAME, I was still a bit lost, but then I saw STANDING in the bottom-right corner, and it all became clear. This is about REPUTATION, a word I found to its left.
With that in mind, I was able to get the spangram of STREETCRED in a mirrored ‘L’ shape across the board.
Two words were left to find in the area it cordoned off: CHARACTER was on the right-hand side, while STATURE was on the left.
Yesterday’s Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday’s Strands answers for game #434 right here.
