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NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, September 25 (game #837)

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Johnny Dee

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24 September 2025

My clues will help you solve the NYT’s Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going

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Today’s words

Hint #1: Group hints

Hint #2: Group answers

Today’s answers

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, September 24 (game #836).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

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NYT Connections today (game #837) – today’s words

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Today’s NYT Connections words are…

GREEK/ROMAN

PROGRESSIVE

NYT Connections today (game #837) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: Opposite of right
GREEN: Gelato formats
BLUE: Starring a famous Bostonian
PURPLE: A mythical name in common
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

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NYT Connections today (game #837) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: LEFT-LEANING, POLITICALLY
GREEN: ICE CREAM PARLOR ORDERS
BLUE: MATT DAMON MOVIES, WITH “THE”
PURPLE: NAMED “APOLLO”
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NYT Connections today (game #837) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Connections, game #837, are…

YELLOW: LEFT-LEANING, POLITICALLY BLUE, LEFT, LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE
GREEN: ICE CREAM PARLOR ORDERS CONE, CUP, SHAKE, SPLIT
BLUE: MATT DAMON MOVIES, WITH “THE” DEPARTED, GOOD SHEPHERD, MARTIAN, RAINMAKER
PURPLE: NAMED “APOLLO” FICTIONAL BOXER, GREEK/ROMAN GOD, SPACECRAFT, THEATER

My rating: Hard
My score: Perfect

Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is all you need to complete Connections and that was certainly the case for me today.
I knew that (The) DEPARTED and (The) MARTIAN were Matt Damon movies, albeit ones missing “The”, and guessed that he was in RAINMAKER and GOOD SHEPHERD too.
Meanwhile, for LEFT-LEANING, POLITICALLY I needed to stop thinking like someone based in the UK, where the right-leaning Conservative party is BLUE and the LIBERAL Party is centerist.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, September 24, game #836)

YELLOW: MOVIE FEATURE, FILM, FLICK, PICTURE
GREEN: STREW LITTER, PEPPER, SCATTER, SPRINKLE
BLUE: WRINKLY THINGS BRAIN, CREPE PAPER, PRUNE, SHAR PEI
PURPLE: SWEET ____ POTATO, SIXTEEN, TALK, TOOTH

What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

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Contributor

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna’s addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.
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