Can I help you a little today? Today's puzzle — "good with age" - is surprisingly tough if you're not a lot of foodies

Below we've compiled some useful tips for Strand#92 and the answer to that We'll start with a few clues before building the full answer for Strand #92, so read on if you need a little help

Warning: Spoilers are ahead for Strand #92  

The official theme of NYT Strand #92 is: "It gets better with age"

And here is an unofficial tip from me: "Acquired taste"

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

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

Scroll down to find out what it is

It is fermented

So what is Strand's answer today for game #92

Drumroll, please

Then we fermented the spangram

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hi chain If you are not interested in fermented foods, this is a tricky puzzle In fact, if it wasn't for me spotting kombucha quickly spelled along the top, I could have been left struggling

That instant gift immediately set me up in spangram Fermentation begins in the middle of the left board, and all the snakes up near the upper right corner

Even though I knew what the theme was and what kind of stuff I was looking for, this was still a bit of a struggle 

Yoghurt was a fairly straightforward one, as the spangram encoded the first four letters And that led me to get sauerkraut and miso to complete the lower half 

It left just 2 answers to find at the top of the board Fortunately, I discovered kimchi with kefir exposed relatively early - not entirely sure I would have it otherwise

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article of yesterday's Strand answer for game #91 right here