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NYT Connections Hints for September 14

Blue ends in NET. Purple is a set of pronouns. This September 14, 2026 page is an original practice board in the Connections format, with four hints and a grid you can play.

Need the habit, not this date? The connections hint guide explains what each color is allowed to say. The live day is on hints today.

Hints

  1. Yellow hint

    Four birds.

  2. Green hint

    Four fish.

  3. Blue hint

    The same mesh word follows all four.

  4. Purple hint

    Four pronouns from the same family.

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September 14 puts birds next to fish so the word fishing looks like it belongs with trout. It does not. Safety, fishing, hair, and drag take NET: safety net, fishing net, hairnet, dragnet. The last row is grammar. They, them, their, and theirs are pronouns. Eagle stays with the birds. If you try to build an animal wall, fishing is the word that breaks it.

  1. Birds

    ROBIN, EAGLE, HERON, FINCH

    Robin, eagle, heron, and finch are birds.

  2. Fish

    TROUT, SALMON, TUNA, CARP

    Trout, salmon, tuna, and carp are fish.

  3. Words before NET

    SAFETY, FISHING, HAIR, DRAG

    Safety net, fishing net, hairnet, and dragnet.

  4. Pronouns

    THEY, THEM, THEIR, THEIRS

    They, them, their, and theirs are pronouns.