Connections #928 Answers
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #928 for Thursday, December 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): ornate, as prose
- Green: create
- Blue: things with stems
- Purple (hardest): comprised of solfege (do-re-mi)
Answers
ORNATE, AS PROSE
EXCESSIVE, FLOWERY, MELODRAMATIC, PURPLE
CREATE
COIN, HATCH, FASHION, MAKE UP
THINGS WITH STEMS
CHERRY, FLOWER, MUSICAL NOTE, WINE GLASS
COMPRISED OF SOLFEGE (DO-RE-MI)
LAREDO, MIRE, RETIRE, SOLTI
Previous Connections answers
- #927 — slang for money, masticate, fish, ways to vocalize musically plus a letter
- #926 — vulnerability, freudian concepts, characters in capes, starting with slang for sausage
- #925 — influx, subsequent, kinds of cards, colors minus last letter
- #924 — features of a teapot, library sections, arise, ___drop
- #923 — containers, laundry services, british bands formed in the 1970s, with "the", rock ___
- #922 — findings, dinner options, u.s. cabinet departments, homophones of places to park a ship
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