Can I help you a little today? Today's puzzle — "Looking for a mate" - is painfully ambiguous, even if you know what it is getting

Below we've compiled some useful tips for Strand#75 and the answer to that We'll start with a few clues before building the full answer for Strand #75, so read on if you need a bit of help

Warning: Spoilers are ahead for Strand #75  

The official theme of NYT Strand #75 is "Looking for a mate"

And here are some unofficial tips from me: "Better with two people"

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

Still struggling? Spangram will give you tips about connecting words Today, it starts with 'P' and ends with 'D'

Scroll down to find out what it is

Paired

So what is Strand's answer today for game #75?

Drum roll, please

And the spangrams were paired

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hi chain This is horrible, even after you decode the theme 

As you can see, I quickly ended up using two clues, and yet it gave me to cotton on what wings and t had in common

When I found out this was not dating (Wingman?I am grateful that the words finally revealed have in common that you need 2 of them to work

So, I came up with spangram: paired 

It wasn't plain sailing yet, but I looked at BOOKEND next (already tried 'book' to win 1 of those clues) It left only earplugs to finish the lower half of the board

There were still three words hidden in the upper half, but fortunately I found the longest one (chopsticks) first It made finding mittens easy enough - I don't think I got the pliers any other way

Not a fun puzzle today, in my view - a little too vague for fun Hopefully tomorrow we will put that right

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article of yesterday's Strand answer for game #74 right here