Crack Today’s Connections With These Must-See Hints and Clues for September 24

If you are staring down the September 24 NYT Connections and the grid is staring right back, I have you. Here are some gentle nudges and, if you want to bail out entirely, the clean answers.

Quick refresher (and a tiny bit of inside baseball)

Connections is that New York Times daily where you corral 16 words into four tidy groups of four. It is created by Wyna Liu, and the game will even nudge you with a warning when you are close. As in:

"one away..."

Veteran move: hunt the yellow group first; it is usually the most obvious. Purple is often the trickster set with a sneaky shared tag or fill-in-the-blank. Green tends to be action-y or concrete. Blue loves a clever commonality you might not clock right away.

Today’s 16 words

PRUNE, LITTER, FEATURE, FLICK, POTATO, TALK, CREPE PAPER, PEPPER, PICTURE, TOOTH, SIXTEEN, SPRINKLE, BRAIN, SHAR PEI, SCATTER, FILM

Hints without spoilers

Yellow plays in the movie lane. Green is about spreading stuff around. Blue groups things that share a specific look/texture. Purple is four words that all pair with the same single word.

Full answers for September 24

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

If you want more daily brain snacks from the Times, there is Wordle, Pips, Strands, Tiles, and a few others lurking in the Games corner.