Skip to main content Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Search Tom's Guide View Profile Newsletters Best Picks Entertainment Nintendo Switch 2 Tariff tracker Best Mattress Wordle Today NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #416 (Wednesday, April 23 2025) Alan Martin 22 April 2025 Need help with Strands #416? Here are some hints and the answers When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Tom’s Guide/NY Times/Shutterstock) Today's hints Today's answers Yesterday's answers Strands today: Quick menu 1. Today's hints 2. Today's answer 3. Yesterday's answer Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "What a softie!" — is a tricky one, even when you have an answer or two on the board. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #416, 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 #416, so read on if you need a little help. Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #416. You may like NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #376 (Friday, March 14 2025) NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #371 (Sunday, March 9 2025) Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints The official theme for NYT Strands #416 is... "What a softie!" And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Feel the frizz!" If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens: Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with G and ends with Y. Sign up to get the BEST of Tom's Guide direct to your inbox. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. 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CATERPILLAR (Image credit: Alan Martin) ...and the spangram was What a softie! Strands #416 “What a softie!” Hi Strands fans. The biggest giveaway to today's answers is the double 'Z' in the spangram. But before I found that, I had located SLIPPERS in the top-left corner. With that and the spangram of GETFUZZY, it was clear this would be about fuzzy things. That, it turns out, is quite a wide spread of things, and after finding DUCKLING cornered off in the bottom-left segment and PEACH on the right, I was a bit stumped. Eventually, I used a clue, which revealed CHENILLE - an answer I wouldn't have thought of in a million years - in the bottom-right corner. That just left CATERPILLAR to unwind in the top-right corner to finish the puzzle. Yesterday's Strands answers Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #415 right here. 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