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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 9, #1186

Is it time to start planning for Halloween? Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features a spooky blue category, so grab a pumpkin spice latte and get to solving. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers.

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: I don’t get it.

Green group hint: Tiny.

Blue group hint: Scary cinema.

Purple group hint: May it be with you.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Hard to understand.

Green group: Words with “small” prefixes.

Blue group: Horror movies.

Purple group: Words before “force.”

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is hard to understand.

The four answers are bewildering, esoteric, incomprehensible and opaque.

The green words...

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