Today’s Tips for NIT Connections, Answers for 15 Dec, #553

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Tip: One of the categories in The New York Times Connections Puzzle Today it involves some sort of ingredient that I recently used while making cookies for my annual cookie swap. And another play on the puzzle editor’s love of wordplay, such as removing letters from familiar words or names and making other words out of them. Need more tips and answers? Read on.

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Tips for today’s relationship groups

Here are four grouping hints in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Like salt.

Green group advice: Not to be good.

Blue Group Tip: A quick read.

Purple Group Tip: Singer name game.

Answers for today’s link groups

Yellow group: Spices.

Green Group: Execution bad.

Blue Group: Flip through, like pages.

Purple Group: Pop singers minus the “S.”

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What are today’s responses to Connections?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The topic is spices. The four answers are cloves, mace, nutmeg and pepper.

Green words in today’s Connections

The theme is poorly executed. The four answers are flail, flop, flounder and tank.

Blue words in today’s Connections

The topic flew by, like pages. The four answers are flip, list, riffle and thumb.

Purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is pop singers minus the “S.” The four answers are Kei, Mar, Spear and Stile.