Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or wondering why Connections is trending today? These clue meanings can help you understand the puzzle without revealing the answers.
Mashable has also published daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years. This guide focuses more on word meanings than traditional hints, but recognizing that several words have completely unrelated meanings can itself be a useful clue. NYT Connections often includes words within words and other visual connections.
NYT Connections clue meanings
- Face: The good character in wrestling.
- Heel: The villain character in wrestling.
- Jobber: A wrestler whose job is to lose matches.
- Kayfabe: The act of pretending staged wrestling events are real.
- Mullet: A popular 80s hairstyle.
- Pike: A single-leg wrestling move.
- Sole: The bottom of the foot or shoe.
- Tang: A reef-associated marine fish.
- Arch: The most extreme version of something.
- Chief: The person in charge.
- Main: Something important. Also could be related to a pipe for transporting utilities.
- Prime: First in importance.
- Beset: To attack from all sides.
- Deserve: To be worthy (of something or someone).
- Ex-love: A former partner.
- Eyelet: A hole in shoes used for thread laces.
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