Issue #914 Tue 28 Oct
Connections hints — October 28, 2025
A steady day for the grid, balancing two straightforward semantic sets against a pair of wordplay-forward challenges. The edges are clean, but keeping track of the overlaps requires a bit of patience.
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Yellow group
The speaker at a dinner party starts a story you have heard three times already and everyone at the table checks their watch.
Literary and rhetorical concepts
Synonyms
Members are 5–9 letters; first letters C, P, T.
BANALITY
One is CHESTNUT.
CHESTNUT · CLICHÉ · PLATITUDE · TROPE
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Green group
You catch a nod from across the room that says the secret is safe and the person in the corner is not who they claim to be.
States of understanding
Synonyms
Members are 3–5 letters; first letters A, H, S, W.
IN THE KNOW
One is AWARE.
AWARE · HIP · SAVVY · WISE
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Blue group
You lose the remote in the sofa cushions and spend ten minutes pressing things blindly until the screen finally flickers to life.
Consumer electronics interfaces
Commonly labeled functions
Members are 4–6 letters; first letters B, H, M, S.
REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS
One is BACK.
BACK · HOME · MENU · SELECT
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Violet group
A music magazine left on a coffee table with a profile piece that focuses entirely on the artist's first name.
Wordplay and popular music
Compound word formation
Members are 5–6 letters; first letters G, K, O, P.
ONE-NAMED SINGER PLUS STARTING LETTER
One is GUSHER.
GUSHER · KENYA · OCHER · PELVIS