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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle includes some tricky words. 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: Yum!
Green group hint: Grammar time.
Blue group hint: They win Oscars and Tonys.
Purple group hint: Think DMZ.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Enhance the taste of.
Green group: Punctuation marks.
Blue group: Kinds of actors.
Purple group: ____ zone.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Nov. 15, 2025.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is enhance the taste of. The four answers are flavor, salt, season and spice.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is punctuation marks. The four answers are colon, dash, period and slash.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is kinds of actors. The four answers are character, film, method and stage.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ____ zone. The four answers are buffer, comfort, time and twilight.
Toughest Connections puzzles
We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.
#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.
#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.
#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.
#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.
#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.
