NYT Strands May 8: Hints and answers for today's puzzle

Each morning, a quiet ritual unfolds as thousands of people sit with a grid of letters, tracing paths through hidden words in the New York Times' Strands puzzle. On May 8, the puzzle turned its gaze inward, asking players to find beauty in the unremarkable — words like 'ordinary,' 'prosaic,' and 'pedestrian' woven into a grid held together by the spangram 'Run of the Mill.' In a media landscape that rewards speed and spectacle, Strands offered something rarer: a meditation on the value of the commonplace, and the patience required to see it.