On the last day of 2025, the New York Times Strands puzzle offers a quiet meditation on circularity — the theme 'One good turn deserves another' borrowed from an old ethic of reciprocity, then playfully stripped of its moral weight and spun into a board full of words about rotation. The spangram ROUNDANDROUND anchors the puzzle's logic, while six theme words — from the simple SPIN to the elegant PIROUETTE — trace the many ways things return to where they began. It is, in its small way, a fitting close to a year: the wheel turns, and we find ourselves back at the start.
NYT Strands Hints and Answers for December 31: 'One Good Turn Deserves Another'
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