NYT Strands Answers: Mythology-Themed Puzzle Solutions for April 23

Three ancient civilizations—Greek, Roman, and Norse—each carved the cosmos into divine territories, assigning gods to govern thunder, wisdom, love, death, marriage, and harvest. Thursday's New York Times Strands puzzle, titled 'Provinces of the Pantheon,' uses this shared architecture of belief as its organizing logic, revealing how different cultures arrived at strikingly similar answers to the question of who rules the world. The spangram DOMAINS unlocks not just the grid, but a quiet meditation on how mythology travels across time and borders—sometimes borrowed, sometimes stolen, always tra