Today's Strands clue is "An instrumental destination". Use the hints below to find the theme words and the spangram.
Ready for a little grid hunt? Take your time and follow the clues wherever they lead.
Theme nudge: What to look for
Look for a place where players browse tools that shape sound.
Hint 1: How many words to find
There are 7 theme words plus one spangram.
Hint 2: The spangram
The spangram has 10 letters, starts with M, and runs from one side of the board to the other.
Hint 3: Theme word lengths and first letters
- 9 letters, starts with A
- 4 letters, starts with C
- 5 letters, starts with D
- 6 letters, starts with G
- 5 letters, starts with P
- 4 letters, starts with P
- 5 letters, starts with S
Show the spangram
MUSICSTORE
Show all theme words
AMPLIFIER, CAPO, DRUMS, GUITAR, PIANO, PICK, SYNTH
About this puzzle
- Made by Christina Iverson
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
Strands deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
The solved board
Gold squares are the spangram, green squares are theme words.
What the theme words mean
- AMPLIFIER: (electronics) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the ot...
- CAPO: A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar and used to raise the pitch of all strings.
- DRUMS: a 2011 supernatural comic book limited series created by writer El Torres and artists Abe Hernando and Kwaichang Kraneo.
- GUITAR: (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played...
- PIANO: (music) A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored ke...
- PICK: A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- SYNTH: (slang) A musical synthesizer.
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