NYT Strands Hints and Answers for April 30: 'Wet Blankets'

Each morning, a small puzzle invites players to look past the familiar and find the hidden order beneath the surface. Thursday's New York Times Strands carried the title 'Wet Blankets' — a phrase most associate with social gloom — but its true subject was the quiet physics of water suspended in air, governed by the unifying word CONDENSATION. In this way, the puzzle does what good riddles have always done: it uses the known to conceal the knowable, rewarding those patient enough to look again.