NYT Strands Puzzle #562: 'Riding High' Theme Features Ziplining Spangram

Each day, the New York Times Strands puzzle offers players a small invitation to think thematically — to find not just words, but a world hidden inside a grid of letters. On September 16, that world is the exhilarating one of ziplining, where puzzle #562 asks solvers to assemble, letter by letter, the full vocabulary of flight along a wire. It is a modest but genuine exercise in how meaning emerges from pattern, and how a single word — ZIPLINING — can unlock everything that surrounds it.