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NYT Strands Hints

August 11, 2026#1,069

Updated 10:12 PM ET

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Today's theme

NYT clue“Fresh from the market”

Everything on this board is something you would carry home in a paper sack after a trip to a stand piled high with the season's best.

Two words fused together, for the haul you bring in when the growing season peaks all at once.

Reveal the spangram

One nudge per theme word, each labelled with the kind of help it gives. Open only as many as you need.

1Bugs Bunny's favorite

A tapering orange root, famous for a supposed boost to night vision, an old wartime myth that stuck around long after the war ended.

2On the cob

Golden kernels on a cob, essential at any summer cookout, and also the word for a hard patch of skin that forms on your foot.

3Mostly water, all summer

A sprawling vine fruit, its green-skinned pink-fleshed cousin a picnic staple, alongside a smaller orange-fleshed relative usually cut into wedges.

4Sweet or scorching

A hollow-bodied vegetable ranging from mild and blocky to small and capable of ruining your afternoon, depending on which one lands on your plate.

5Fruit or vegetable

Botanically a fruit, treated everywhere else like a vegetable, and the center of a very old kitchen argument about which one it really is.

6The overachiever

A summer squash so prolific that gardeners quietly leave bags of it on neighbors' porches, unasked, every August.

Reveal all Strands answers

The amber word is the spangram. It touches two opposite sides of the board.

Same promise on every one of them: labelled clues in the open, the answer behind a reveal you have to open on purpose.

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