New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Today's NYT Strands puzzle for Sunday, August 16, 2026 is number 896. The theme is "Learn by doing" and the spangram is JOBTRAINING. The five other theme words all name a person learning a trade under someone who already knows it.

If you would rather solve it yourself, here are three hints in ascending order of how much they give away.

The nudge for today's board is "Follow my lead."

Every theme word is a person, not an action. Each is a title you would hold while learning, rather than something you would do.

The spangram is two words run together, eleven letters, and it is the formal name for what the other five are all going through.

In the spangram's orientation, today's is neither cleanly horizontal nor clea...