A knowledge of past Wordle answers may well have helped then, although you'd need to go back a little further for some other red herrings – GRASP, which appeared in March 2024, BRASS (September 2024) and CRASS (waaaaay back in August 2021).

Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for Dec. 19, No. 1,644.

Today's Strands spangram is IMMUNEBOOSTERS.