Connections #806 Answers
Monday, August 25, 2025
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #806 for Monday, August 25, 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): predicament
- Green: small spherical things
- Blue: pipe-smoking accessories
- Purple (hardest): what "down" might mean
Answers
PREDICAMENT
FIX, JAM, MESS, PICKLE
SMALL SPHERICAL THINGS
MOTHBALL, PEA, PEARL, POM-POM
PIPE-SMOKING ACCESSORIES
FILTER, LIGHTER, PIPE CLEANER, TAMPER
WHAT "DOWN" MIGHT MEAN
FEATHERS, GUZZLE, SAD, WILLING
Previous Connections answers
- #805 — wine vessels, ripped, kinds of snakes, ___ call
- #804 — liquids you put into cars, arena, skulduggery, modern inventions
- #803 — u.s. presidents, actors whose last names are also verbs, kinds of poker, proper nouns after words ending in "ing" in '90s movie titles
- #802 — blunder, lands of the imagination, things with antenna/e, ___ doodle
- #801 — black-and-white things, pairs of rods, things that rotate about a vertical axis, rods that curve at one end
- #800 — quite the talker, fortified wines, ___ rock, starting with ways to move quickly
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