Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Jan. 20, #119
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Today’s Connection:Sports Edition Reminds me of the purple category again. Fortunately, if you do a good job with the first three items, the problem will resolve itself by default. Read on for today’s Connect: Hints and Answers to the Sports Edition Puzzle.
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Today’s Hookup Tip: Sports Edition Group
Here are four tips grouped in today’s Connect: Sports Edition puzzle, from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow group tips: Can’t go up
Green group tips: Hang ten
Blue group tips: empire state school
Purple group tips: sounds like a basketball player
Today’s Connected Answers: Sports Edition Group
Yellow group: economic downturn
Green group: surf terminology
Blue group: new york academy
Purple group: Homophones for NBA player names
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What’s the answer on today’s WIRED: Sports Edition?
yellow words in today’s connection
The theme is doldrums. The four answers are decline, plunge, glide and plunge.
Green words in today’s connection
The theme is surf terminology. The four answers are barrel, crest, surge and wave.
blue words in today’s connection
The topic is New York University. The four answers were Colgate University, Columbia University, St. John’s University and Syracuse University.
purple words in today’s connection
The theme is the homophone of NBA players’ names. The four answers are Barn, Connection, Heart, and Hero.