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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has one of those purple categories where you need to look inside of the words for hidden words that relate to each other. If you need help sorting them into groups, you’re in the right place. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
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Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Put up with.
Green group hint: Bad ending.
Blue group hint: Yo-ho-ho!
Purple group hint: Think rainbow.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Tolerate.
Green group: Flop.
Blue group: Fictional pirates.
Purple group: Ending in color homophones.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is tolerate. The four answers are bear, stand, stomach and swallow.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is flop. The four answers are bust, lemon, miss and turkey.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is fictional pirates. The four answers are Hook, Luffy, Silver and Sparrow.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ending in color homophones. The four answers are Cameroon (maroon), cockatiel (teal), unread (red) and whistleblew (blue).
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