Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Mon, December 2nd

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Connections hints for Monday 2nd December

Here’s a hint for each of the word groups in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a couple more Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections hints for today are:

• Yellow (Easiest): To state for everyone to hear.
• Green (Easy): All of these require the usage of little hammers.
• Blue (Medium): You’ll find these on the side of nice tops.
• Purple (Hardest): All proceed another word that begins with C and rhymes with “dip.”
• Extra hint 1: Polo Player actually isn’t one of the words in the Green group.
• Extra hint 2: Alligator and Paper belong in the same group.

If you’re looking for more Connections hints today to help narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

Yellow (Easiest):

Green (Easy):

Carpentry

Blue (Medium):

Laurel

Purple (Hardest):

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

Trumpet	Croquet	Crocodile	Paper
Alligator	Hair	Whac-A-Mole	Herald
Polo Player	Broadcast	Laurel	Xylophone
Carpentry	Video	Swoosh	Declare

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What are today’s Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Announce
• Things Involving Mallets
• Icon Embroidered On A Polo Shirt
• Clip

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check just below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Monday, 2nd December:

• Announce: Broadcast, Declare, Herald, Trumpet
• Things Involving Mallets: Carpentry, Croquet, Whac-A-Mole, Xylophone
• Icon Embroidered On A Polo Shirt: Crocodile, Laurel, Polo Player, Swoosh
• ___ Clip: Alligator, Hair, Paper, Video

Today’s Connections was very hard for me. Once again, they’ve intentionally messed with my mind by introducing a bunch of words related to the usage of mallets, and then tossing in “Polo Player” as well, but sticking that in a totally separate group. Let’s not even get started with the Purple group and all of these clips… I’ve never used an Alligator Clip before, and I don’t plan to!