NYT Strands Answers Today, June 18, 2026: Spangram and Full Solution for Puzzle #837 (opens in new tab)

Thursday’s NYT Strands puzzle trades dry land for open water. Puzzle #837, published June 18, 2026, sends solvers wading into a theme built entirely around what lives beneath the waves, and the grid rewards anyone who has ever snorkeled past a reef or flipped through a marine biology textbook. If the board has you circling the same letters without much to show for it, here is the complete breakdown of today’s theme, spangram, and every answer, along with a short refresher on how Strands hints...