Connections #1010 Answers
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #1010 for Tuesday, March 17, 2026. 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): metaphors for trouble
- Green: music theory concepts
- Blue: things with strings
- Purple (hardest): metaphors for quickness
Answers
METAPHORS FOR TROUBLE
BIND, HOT WATER, JAM, PICKLE
MUSIC THEORY CONCEPTS
KEY, PITCH, SCALE, TONE
THINGS WITH STRINGS
BALLOON, KITE, TEA BAG, YO-YO
METAPHORS FOR QUICKNESS
ARROW, LIGHTNING, ROCKET, WIND
Previous Connections answers
- #1009 — animal group names, things associated with being slow, silent "w", words that sound like state abbreviations
- #1008 — greedily control, toothed wheels, portmanteaux, bull___
- #1007 — hypnotic state, starting with prefixes meaning "two", fictional inspectors, ending in female animals
- #1006 — "no thanks", kinds of numbers, kinds of walls, homophones of non-numeric amounts
- #1005 — places to find sand, things that move back and forth, apparatus-based exercise classes, featuring birds
- #1004 — steal, make nicer, with "up", kinds of cones, pronoun homophones
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