Need help with today's NYT Strand? Today's theme, “Would you look at that?” - is not immediately obvious, even though there are several answers on the board.

Below, we have compiled not only the answers, but also some helpful hints for Strand #259. First, a few hints will help you get to the full answer to Strand #259.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #259.

The official theme for NYT Strands #259 is... “Look at that.”

And here's an unofficial tip from me: ”Structure to find your direction.”

If you're still not sure, here's a handy word that gives you a valuable hint token:

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with 'L' and ends with 'S'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

LANDMARKS.

Now, what's the answer to today's strand?

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was LANDMARKS.

Strands #259

“Would you look at that?”

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Hello Strands fans! This song was a bit difficult to begin with. Just because of the theme, “Would you look at that?” is very vague and can be applied to anything. In fact, I was mindlessly connecting words for the hint column above and found the BRIDGE in the lower right corner.

But even if I could have confirmed that, I had no idea what the theme meant, so a hint revealed ARCH, and another hint gave me FORT.

It turned out to be a spangram.

That left me with a total of four answers, two on the top of the board and two on the bottom. I next got the longest answer on the board, MONUMENT, which cleared the TOWER spelling on the left side in a straight line.

The top section cleared up nicely; CASTLE was on the left, so I completed the puzzle by breaking the PLAACE anagram into PALACE.

Are you reading this late in the day? The full text of Strand's solution to yesterday's game #258 can be found here.