Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Beatlemania!” - is very easy for some and tricky for others.

Below are some tips to help you with Strand #274, and some answers if you need them. We'll start with a few tips to help you get the full answer to Strand #274.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #274.

The official theme for NYT Strands #274 is... “Beatlemania!”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “One Word Track.”

If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that will give you valuable hint tokens:

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctive words. Today it starts with 's' and ends with 's'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

SONGTITLES.

Now, what's the answer to today's Strand game #274?

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was SONGTITLES.

Strand #274

“Beatlemania!”

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Hello Strand fans, hold on while I put on a Beatles playlist on Apple Music.

Yes, today we're talking about the SONGTITLES of the Beatles, though it's surprising that there's no “Something,” but “Beatlemania!” Given the subtle theme of “The Fab Four,” the rest are all big hits from the Fab Four's back catalog.

The “X” at the top left of the grid immediately identifies it as TAXMAN, and below it I see REVOLUTION spelled from left to right. Then the four letters of HELP were coded in the upper right corner.

Along with the spangram, we were left with two long answers; YESTERDAY took up most of the lower left of the grid and was fairly straightforward, but BLACKBIRD took a while to find.

Then I got my first SONGTITLES spangram, which in hindsight was rather obvious (I was expecting something more directly Beatles-related...). .

Reading this late in the day? The full article on Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 273 can be found here.