Connections #709 Answers
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #709 for Tuesday, May 20, 2025. The 16 words split into four groups by colour — yellow is easiest, purple the trickiest. The group themes are listed first as hints, then every group is revealed below. Looking for the latest puzzle? See today's Connections.
Hints — the four group themes
- Yellow (easiest): account book
- Green: seen in a barn
- Blue: detectives of kid-lit
- Purple (hardest): words before “bed”
Answers
ACCOUNT BOOK
LEDGER, LOG, RECORD, REGISTER
SEEN IN A BARN
BALE, HORSE, PITCHFORK, TROUGH
DETECTIVES OF KID-LIT
BROWN, DREW, HARDY, HOLMES
WORDS BEFORE “BED”
CANOPY, DAY, MURPHY, WATER
Previous Connections answers
- #708 — fundraising event, spaces on a monopoly board, features of a toothed whale, homophones of parts of the foot
- #707 — tasks for a student, encouraging responses in a guessing game, up for anything, what “a” might mean
- #706 — member of a kingdom in taxonomy, graduated instruments, kinds of penguins, “e” things
- #705 — kinds of plants, discontinue, associated with bulls, ending with building materials
- #704 — rationale, types of snow, last words of famous opera titles, real ___
- #703 — absorb using capillary action, greek prefixes, titular animals of film, starting with silent letters
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