Here's your NYT Connections hint for Monday Sep 7

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Tuesday 29th September!

Those guesses disappear quickly! If you're on your last few and you don't have any groups sorted yet, we've got you covered.

Whether you need a gentle nudge or a full answer, you'll find everything you need in this Connections guide.

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Connections hint for Monday 7th September

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: The truth can take a detour when the journey is long.
• 🟩 Green hint: Support comes in many forms.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Evergreen, but make it aromatic.
• 🟪 Purple hint: Disney has been sneaking into the dictionary again.
• Extra hint 1: One group hides its words inside others.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'S'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• 🟨 Yellow: Fish Story
• 🟩 Green: Cup
• 🟦 Blue: Christmas
• 🟪 Purple: Plutonium

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Today's Connections groups revealed

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:

• 🟨 Yellow: Quite the Saga
• 🟩 Green: Parts of a Bra
• 🟦 Blue: Associated with Pine Trees
• 🟪 Purple: Starting with Disney Characters

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

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Monday, 7th September:

• 🟨 Yellow: Quite the Saga (Fabrication, Fish Story, Tall Tale, Yarn)
• 🟩 Green: Parts of a Bra (Cup, Hook, Strap, Underwire)
• 🟦 Blue: Associated with Pine Trees (Car Air Freshener, Christmas, Needles, Turpentine)
• 🟪 Purple: Starting with Disney Characters (Plutonium, Scar Tissue, Stitch Marker, Trampoline)

The ladies out there got lucky with the green group today! That one stuck out like a sore thumb for me, anyway. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the purple group. The groups where you have to find words inside others are the always the trickiest ones for me to decipher.

Let us know in the comments below how you found today's puzzle! Here's my grid:

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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!