NYT Strands - full theme ahead

[JaneJeffer]

Strands #148
“Book it!”
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Strands #185
“American beauty”
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I had never heard of one of these, the rest were well known of their category, but that one is obscure.

If you tap the clue button twice it will show you the order. Otherwise you just need to look for an order of letters that makes a pronounceable word for that one.

Is that the hint button? Clicking on that doesn't do anything. And the letters are not lending themselves into anything pronounceable!

Tricky

Strands #185
“American beauty”
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@WingBingo please can you help me out with the one which is in the middle right of the board? Even just the first letter? It's the only one I have left and I can't figure it out.

Yes the hint button. Maybe it doesn’t work when you only gave one word left. The word you’re looking for isn’t an English word.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵🔵🟡
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Tough one for me today

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🔵🟡🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Took me a while to figure these out.

Thank you.
Please can you tell me the first letter at least?
I have tried so many combinations!

There's a list of all the things in the category on Wikipedia which might help - I suspect you won't get it if you've not heard of it otherwise...

Not easy today. One of them I’d never heard of.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵💡🔵
🟡🔵🔵🔵

@6ixThirty I’ll message you rather than putting a spoiler on here.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Definitely helps if you know the US!

Really obscure the last word! Took me ages.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵🟡🔵
🔵🔵🔵

I was also stuck on that one - as above a list of the Spangram categories helped.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵💡🔵
💡🔵🔵🟡
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Thank you @Peridot1, I would not have got the final one without your clue! And Google helped too!

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🔵🟡🔵🔵
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That last one was an absolute pig! It had me gawping at Wiki muttering letters to myself as I tried to find one that matched.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵💡🔵
🟡🔵🔵🔵

That took ages and needed to google

Last one was tricky even though I had all the letters.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🔵🟡🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Very tricky. Needed help.

Strands #185
“American beauty”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Got the theme straight away, but needed assistance from Wikipedia for some of them!

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵💡🔵
🔵💡🔵🟡
🔵

well… that was fun 🤨🤨

Strands #185
“American beauty”
💡🔵🔵🟡
💡💡🔵🔵
🔵

That was very difficult . Last one to get I had no hints left - was randomly linking the letters thinking of giving up and I hit upon the right order . Not a recognisable word at all .

Strands #186
“Going underground”
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Need to go find out what half of these things are

Strands #186
“Going underground”
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hmm
and why did I use the hint when only one word left?

Strands #186
“Going underground”
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Top left I have never heard of, all the rest were ok.