Need support for today's NYT strand? Today's theme of “You're getting warm” is made quite clear by some answers on the board.

Below is a list of hints and answers for Strand #263. We will start with the clues and then lead you to the full answer to Strand #263.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #263.

The official theme for NYT Strands #263 is...

“It's getting warmer.”

And here's an unofficial tip from me: “Many living room eyeballs.”

If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that give you valuable hint tokens:

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with 'F' and ends with 'E'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

FIREPLACE.

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

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was FIREPLACE.

Strands #263

“You're getting warm”

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Hello Strands fans! I was probably lucky to find a spangram so quickly for today's puzzle.

Actually, I was going to use FIREPLACE as the solution and thought it was one of the winter heaters, not a spangram. But when FIREPLACE turned yellow, I knew I just had to find something related to fireplaces.

CHIMNEY was the first one I found, written backwards over the spangram 'F'. Then I noticed the 'MANTEL' under that 'F' and the 'HEARTH' directly below the rest of the words, POKER and SCREEN completed the bottom half.

I'm glad I left the top section to the end, because otherwise I might have been tripped up by the other two words. However, when I connected BROOM, thankfully there was no other option (since I couldn't quite connect “fuel”).

Reading this late in the day? The full article about Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 262 can be found here.