Today's NYT Strands hints and answersCredit: New York TimesLooking for Mondays Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:Merry Christmas Eve, Strandistas! I hope youre all having a lovely holiday. Like all of you, Im busy with all the madness of the season so I will keep this preamble brief. We have a Strands to solve before our festive merrymaking. Lets solve it!Strands is the newest game in the New York Times stable of puzzle games. Its a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day were given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the days theme.Spoilers ahead.Todays Strands HintsTodays Theme: What on earth...?Hint #1: The great outdoors.MORE FOR YOUHint #2: Baby name ideas.To help you uncover all the words, here are the first two letters of every word, including the spangram.CLRILABRWIHONARemember, spoilers ahead!What Are Todays Strands Answers?Todays spangram is: NATURENAMESHeres the full list of words:CLEMENTINERIVERLAURELBROOKWILLOWHOLLYHeres the completed Strands grid:Today's StrandsCredit: Erik KainTodays Strands BreakdownThis was a bit of a tricky Strands grid, simply because while all the words are nature-themed, nature-themed is rather broad. How is a CLEMENTINE like a BROOK exactly? Both nature-themed, sure, but whats the connection? Well, it happens that these are all NATURENAMES. You might name your daughter HOLLY or LAUREL or your son RIVER, or your little Nelwyn WILLOW, destined to do great things, protecting the princess Alora Danan and defeating the demon queen, Bavmorda. But I digress.How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook.Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!