NYT Strands Answer Today (#936) – 25 Sep 2026 Solution & Hints
- About Today’s Strands
- Today’s Theme
- General Hints
- Spangram Length
- Spangram Orientation
- Spangram First & Last Letters
- First & Last Letters of All Words
- Spangram (Click to Reveal)
- Spangram Definition (Click to Reveal)
- Sample Words (Click to Reveal)
- Full Solution (Click to Reveal)
- Definitions of All Words (Click to Reveal)
About Today’s Strands
Puzzle #936 (published 25 Sep 2026). One special word — the Spangram — spans the grid and ties the theme together.
Today’s Theme
Theme: 1×1, etc…
General Hints
- Every answer in today’s grid is a number you’d recognize instantly, but the connection is about how each one is built, not what it’s used for.
- Picture tiling a floor in a perfect grid pattern — each theme word is the total tile count for one such grid.
- If you multiplied a whole number by itself, you’d land on one of today’s answers.
Spangram Length
The Spangram has 12 letters and is two words.
Spangram Orientation
The Spangram doesn’t run in a straight line — it bends partway through the grid, touching the left edge of the board in two different rows.
Spangram First & Last Letters
Begins with S and ends with R.
Pattern preview (length-obscured): S___R
Note: We always display first/last letters as X___Y with three underscores, regardless of true length.
First & Last Letters of All Words
- Word 1: F___R
- Word 2: N___E
- Word 3: T___E
- Word 4: T___X
- Word 5: E___E
Spangram preview: S___R
Spangram
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SQUARE NUMBER
Spangram Definition
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SQUARE NUMBER — A whole number produced by multiplying another whole number by itself.
Example: “Sixty-four is a square number because it’s eight multiplied by itself.”
Sample Words
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- Nine
- Eighty-One
Full Solution
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Theme: 1×1, etc…
Spangram: SQUARE NUMBER
All words:
- FOUR
- NINE
- TWENTYFIVE
- THIRTYSIX
- EIGHTYONE
- SQUARE NUMBER (Spangram)
Definitions of All Words
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- Four — The whole number that comes after three, and the smallest number in today’s grid.
- Nine — The whole number that comes after eight, one less than a full baseball lineup.
- Twenty-Five — A quarter of a hundred, and a common milestone birthday or anniversary marker.
- Thirty-Six — The number of inches in a yard, and a common count for a dozen tripled.
- Eighty-One — A number just shy of the century mark, one more than four score.
- SQUARE NUMBER — A whole number produced by multiplying another whole number by itself.
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