Each day, the New York Times invites its readers into a small arena of language and pattern — and on August 19th, puzzle number 534 asked solvers to reckon with the hyphen, that humble dash that binds old words into something stranger and more alive. The theme, 'Dash it!', gathered four vintage expressions — HOITY-TOITY, PELL-MELL, HOCUS-POCUS, and WILLY-NILLY — around a spangram that named its own conceit: HYPHENATED. In an age of relentless novelty, there is something quietly meaningful about a puzzle that asks us to rediscover the whimsy already buried in the language we inherited.
NYT Strands #534: Hyphenated phrases puzzle solution for August 19
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