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NYT Strands — August 22, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's grid climbs through some of America's best-known mountain chains.
Hint 2 of 5
Every non-spangram word is the name that comes before "Mountains" in a famous U.S. range.
Hint 3 of 5
One entry is the jagged range running through Idaho; another is the smoky-blue-hazed range along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
Hint 4 of 5
The spangram is the general geographic term for a connected chain of peaks like these.
Hint 5 of 5
Look for CASCADE, GREEN, ROCKY, SAWTOOTH, SMOKY and WHITE, all spanned by MOUNTAINRANGE.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
Peak Americana
MOUNTAINRANGE
CASCADE · GREEN · ROCKY · SAWTOOTH · SMOKY · WHITE
This puzzle by the numbers
- 13 letters
- 6
Counted from our own archive of NYT Strands answers — not published anywhere else.
