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Here are progressive hints for the Wednesday, October 1, 2025, NYT Connections puzzle, identified in answer guides as puzzle #843. Try the clues before opening the full answer key below.
Hints for Connections #843
- Yellow: Think of water that moves quickly.
- Green: These are ways to criticize someone or something.
- Blue: Look for places—or a kind of call—associated with reverberation.
- Purple: Each word can come before “prize.”
One answer from each group
Still solving? These single-word nudges reveal one entry from each set without showing all four categories: RAPIDS, SLAM, TUNNEL, and FIRST.
Full answers for October 1, 2025
Spoilers below: the complete categories and word groups follow.
- FAST-MOVING WATER: CATARACT, CURRENT, RAPIDS, WHIRLPOOL
- CRITICIZE: FLAME, KNOCK, SKEWER, SLAM
- ECHOEY PLACES: CANYON, HALLWAY, TUNNEL, ZOOM CALL
- ___ PRIZE: BOOBY, DOOR, FIRST, JURY
The full word bank
The sixteen entries reported for puzzle #843 are CANYON, HALLWAY, RAPIDS, FLAME, CURRENT, JURY, SLAM, DOOR, TUNNEL, CATARACT, BOOBY, SKEWER, KNOCK, FIRST, ZOOM CALL, and WHIRLPOOL.
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Two potentially tricky fits
CATARACT means a waterfall here
CATARACT can refer to an eye condition, but in the reported answer key it belongs with fast-moving water, in the waterfall sense.
ZOOM CALL is in the echoey group
ZOOM CALL is the less literal fit in ECHOEY PLACES: it is a call, not a physical place. The cited answer guides nevertheless report it in that group.
The answer groups above are reported by secondary answer guides; the NYT puzzle page could not be verified for this guide.
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