NYT Connections: Sports Edition #62 Hints and Answers for November 24, 2024

Need a nudge before the answers? The hints for the November 24, 2024, Connections: Sports Edition puzzle are crowd taunts, tennis-court surfaces, abbreviated school names and nearly complete NFL quarterback surnames. Read the spoiler-light clues first; the category names and answers follow below.

Hints for Connections: Sports Edition #62

These clues point toward each group without revealing its four words:

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• Yellow: Ridiculing from the crowd
• Green: Playing surfaces
• Blue: School names
• Purple: Almost great fantasy picks

The game presents 16 words to sort into four related groups. You can rearrange or shuffle the board as you look for connections; a wrong guess counts toward a limit of four mistakes. The color order runs from yellow, described as the easiest group, through green and blue to purple, described as the hardest. AppsManager Blog’s November 25, 2024, guide describes these mechanics.

Category names

• Yellow: Heckle
• Green: Types of tennis courts
• Blue: ACC Schools, abbreviated
• Purple: NFL QBs with a letter removed

All 16 answers

Yellow — Heckle: BOO, HISS, HOOT, JEER

Green — Types of tennis courts: CARPET, CLAY, GRASS, HARD

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Blue — ACC Schools, abbreviated: BC, CAL, CUSE, PITT

Purple — NFL QBs with a letter removed: BRAD, COUSIN, MOO, RIVER

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For the purple wordplay, BRAD, COUSIN, MOO and RIVER point to Tom Brady, Kirk Cousins, Warren Moon and Philip Rivers, respectively, with a letter removed from each surname. The school entries are presented as abbreviations; the category does not expand them.

The puzzle is identified as Sports Edition #62 for November 24, 2024, in the dated guide and in a November 24 discussion thread.

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