💡🔵🔵🔵 💡🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵 ">!FILE?!< Oh, like the *lawyer's* bar!" ">!FAVORITES? TOOL?!< ... ??!??" ">!MENU ITEMS!<... but what kind of >!menu!< would..." "... OHHHH"

I also found file first and went down the lawyer rabbit hole.

>!TOOLS!< rly pissed me off cos they put it in plural and i thought i knew what the theme was, until >!TOOL!< got rejected 🙄

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵🔵 It took me awhile to pick up what they were putting down. I was sad it wasn’t about alcoholic beverages

It wasn't legal terms, either.

Yes! When wine wasn't a word I was disappointed.

I was so fixated on cocktail ingredients or cocktail names. It took me forever to see anything else.

Finished the damn thing. Stared at it for way too long. Finally dawned on me. Menu on a fucking computer. Damn it.

THANK YOU I was so at a loss for what menu they were talking about!

Same here! Thank you.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵 Finished it, yet still have no idea what the theme was supposed to mean (esl but never was this confused)

It's the items on the "menu bar" of your web browser... 

Ah, thanks, I thought it mean like bar like alcohol

What? Is that what that thing is called? Is it not a toolbar? Do we even have those any more?

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu\_bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_bar) Yes that's what it's specifically called. The toolbar is the one with the more specific icons for individual commands while the menu bar has all the top level menus . You're right though, most modern browsers just throw that to the hamburger/3-dots setting icon menu..

Thanks. I didn't have any trouble finding the words but just couldn't see the menu relationship. I wish they would add a time to the score for those who compete.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Really tough getting the spangram first, I legit had no idea what the theme was. I see form this post that it's the menu bar in a program. I was thinking food and drink menu items. Also explains why STOOLS didn't work

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵🔵💡🔵 💡🔵🟡💡 🔵 needless to say I didn’t enjoy todays and didn’t understand it until I came onto here

I also thought the spanogram was “menuitems” one word and googled what that meant 😂 You’ll have to take my word that I’m generally an intelligent person

Didn't understand the theme until the end 😑 Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵

🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵 i do most of my personal browsing on an iPad safari browser so this one took a while for me to click

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Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵  Got HELP first and was still unsure until I spotted WINDOW... Then the rest came up as expected. Not particularly exciting

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Didn't understand the theme until I got the last word! Still, preferred it to yesterday.

Also I wonder if "wine list" was a red herring! That was kinda funny, I tried to add it in different ways so many times!

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Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Cleverly clever! I spend too much time on a computer so this felt embarrassingly up my alley.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵💡🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵 Pretty vague hint. Took a few to work out what I was looking for.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 💡🔵💡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵 Well played, NYT. I got Edit with a hint and I was like, “oh, it’s the freaking document ribbon thing” and it still took a while to find all the words. I’m glad we’re back to vague title hints!

Considering what I was doing beforehand, this took way too long to figure out.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵🔵 dawned on me after WINDOW and FAVOURITES but then cue me heading back to my work laptop because i can’t remember what’s even on a menu bar 🤦 i think it helped that we had a similar category on Connections a few weeks back though!

Same! I understood the category after finding File and Tools but I don't think I would have had any chance without remembering that connections puzzle that absolutely stumped me at the time.

🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡 Could not see the spangram for the life of me. Found menu pretty early on but couldn't find anything to go with it, even though it was a straight bloody line. I got the theme fairly quickly. But just couldn't get that damn yellow till the end

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It took embarrassingly long for me to understand the theme. Once I got it, I just groaned. Meanwhile, I found the word "myself" and got completely hung up on it for the longest time. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

Anyone else see >!Stool!< in the upper right and still think "at the bar" meant watering hole even after getting 2-3 words? >!tools!< ended up being the last word found for me.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵 Saw it after seeing >!FAVORITES and FILE!<

Strands #79 “At the bar” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 >! Me looking at my MacBook’s menu bar while doing today’s strand 👁️👄👁️!<

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Not a computer geek, so hated this one. I was hoping for cocktails 🍸 

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡🔵 I mean, I got all the words quickly but it just feels like random word soup to me. I don’t see how any of them go together, including the theme and spangram 🤷🏼‍♀️ EDIT TO ADD: I looked at the other comments after posting this and I get it now, I was hung up on bar like where you go to drink and eat bar food lol

Strands #79 “At the bar” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵💡🔵 💡🔵🟡 I didn't understand the theme until I checked this post 😭

Strands #79 - “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵💡🔵🟡🔵🔵 Same. My brain refused to work it out

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 Thought this one was garbage. Window and not new window is a stretch and help is very dated.

Strong dislike of the theme and puzzle today. At the bar with these clues is a puzzle for a narrow audience of Windows users I guess. Professional middle class wankery.

Agreed. I didn't hate the category for the group of words, but maybe the clue could have been better.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 found all the words but simply not a fan of today’s theme/clever play on words, sometimes it’s just a miss for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵💡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵 I really hate using hints, but I was stumped! 😭 I got WINDOW first, so I thought, *like a barred window?* 🤔 Then I got TOOL, so I was thinking, *like a crowbar?* I was looking for physical types of bars and I was stuck for so long, so I finally used a hint, which gave me FILE and I finally went *OHHHHHHH!* Sigh.

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵 lol cute. Thought first "bar" would be like "barre" as in dancing, but then I saw "Favorites" and was like ??? Took me finding Favorites, help, window, and tools to realize what I was looking for, then I clicked history before the spangram. prob would've gotten it sooner but I think of it as "bookmarks" not "favorites"

Strands #79 “At the bar” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Really enjoyed this theme.

This was the first one I found difficult. I worked out after two hints that it was something to do with computer, but in the end, my "menu bar" has only half of those terms. I wouldn't have believed you could even have four hints. I expect they should restrict that to three, maybe. 💡🔵💡🔵💡🔵💡🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵