Having trouble solving today's NYT Strand? Today's Strand wasn't as tricky as yesterday's horror show, but I got the theme wrong and it took a little longer than last time

Below is a list of clues and solutions to Strand Question 55 We will start with a few clues and then work our way to the complete answer to Strand #55

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #55

The official theme of NYT Strands #55 is "Do you want to call?

And here's an unofficial hint from me: it's Mister to you!

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

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions Today it starts with a "T" and ends with an "S"

Scroll down to see what it is

TITLES

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

Drumroll, please

Spangram was TITLES

Hints used: 1

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Hello, Strand fans Unlike yesterday, this was due to an ambiguous clue and not due to my unfamiliarity with the word!

My first thought when I saw "Call me?" was that this was about communication or dating I scouted for "phone call" and "Valentine's Day" but couldn't find any at all, so I ended up having to use hints

Once the QUEEN was revealed, it hit me and I immediately knew the spangram: TITLES after that, I just had to eliminate them one by one (although I did get caught for a moment by the spelling of SENOR in the lower right corner!)

I found SENATOR to the right of QUEEN, then PROFESSOR to complete the bottom half of the puzzle

Moving on to the top half, the DOCTOR immediately jumped out at me, but the last two took a little longer; I took a few wrong turns with REVEREND, but eventually got there, and all that was left was to decipher the last 7-letter anagram: LRAIDAM

Finally I reached ADMIRAL and finished the puzzle

Are you reading this late in the day? Yesterday's article on Strand's solution to Round 54 can be found here