Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, December 18th
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Connections hints for Wednesday 18th 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): Words like ‘control’, ‘supervise’, or ‘govern’ wouldn’t be out of place either.
- Green (Easy): Alcoholic drinks.
- Blue (Medium): They’d know these words on Wall Street.
- Purple (Hardest): Think of a round-ish roof, then put that word behind the ones in this group.
- Extra hint 1: The purple group contains an early 1920s political scandal in the USA.
- Extra hint 2: The St. Basil’s Cathedral is known for its onion-shaped architecture.
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):
Handle
Green (Easy):
Stout
Blue (Medium):
Hedge
Purple (Hardest):
Onion
What are today’s Connections words?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Tackle | Teapot | Hold | Onion |
| Short | Field | Stout | Hedge |
| Handle | Sour | Trade | Capitol |
| Bitter | Chrome | Manage | Bock |
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:
- Deal With
- Styles Of Beer
- Investment Verbs
- ___ Dome
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 Wednesday, 18th December:
- Deal With: Field, Handle, Manage, Tackle
- Styles Of Beer: Bitter, Bock, Sour, Stout
- Investment Verbs: Hedge, Hold, Short, Trade
- ___ Dome: Capitol, Chrome, Onion, Teapot
That was a tough one! Yellow and green were relatively easy, and I’m sure everyone who’s had a few craft beers would feel the same. The ‘dome’ Connections were much harder to me, especially since it includes the Teapot Dome event. Sure, it was a big corruption scandal at the time… But it happened a hundred years ago, so it’s hardly fresh on our minds. Related
NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 17th)
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Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.
