Today's Strands theme is: A strip of eight emoji. Seems like the puzzle-makers at the Times are playing with us today, probably because the puzzle is a nice round number -- this is puzzle No.
I don’t know where they keep them for the rest of the year, but come the holiday, puzzle boxes seem to crop up everywhere overnight. Along with the tinsel and ornaments, those colourful boxes ...
Puzzles like this are tricky to pull off, and I find myself awed by the handful of constructors who are able to make it look effortless. I don’t have a crystal ball, and I don’t actually know ...