Words are an answer to the question, 'When?' But, they aren't on the clock. Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical. Today's spangram is Timing.

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

In case you need some help with it, here's our daily Wordle guide with some hints and the answer for Saturday's puzzle (#1,302). It may be that you're a Wordle newcomer and you're not completely sure how to play the game.

As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed.