HIGHLIGHTS
- “Mush” is one of the words in today’s NYT Connection, which translates to feeble or cloying sentimentality.
- Cheese, Corn, and Pap are other words of this category that complete the blue group.
- “Foremost,” “Spiky Things,” “Overly Sentimental Work” and “Things that are capped” are the four categories of today’s NYT Connections.
Connections is a word puzzle created and released by The New York Times, featured as part of The New York Times Games collection.
Each puzzle presents 16 words and splits the groupings into four categories. Players need to group the words and share a common thread.
In today’s word set, adjusting “mush” within any group could pose a challenge for regular players of the NYT puzzle.
Solutions For Today’s NYT Connection (September 16)
In The New York Times’ “Connections,” you can start by analyzing each word; it won’t be long before you find the first group.
The name of the Yellow group is ‘FOREMOST.’ Complete the Yellow group by sorting out the words related to the group name.
Moreover, the yellow group contains words including CHIEF, PREMIER, PRINCIPAL and SUPREME.
Additionally, you can notice that some of the words are related to being pointy. Grouping those four words will give us our second group.
The second group, the Green Group, is “SPIKY THINGS” and includes words like “CACTUS,” “HEDGEHOG,” “MACE,” and “PINEAPPLE.”
Meaning Of Mush For September 15 NYT Connection
As you progress forward you will see the word “Mush”. Furthermore, the dictionary definition of mush is, “feeble or cloying sentimentality“.
The word simply means anything unpleasantly or contemptibly lacking in coherence, force, dignity, etc. This is prefect for the theme of the third group.
The third group has the theme ‘OVERLY SENTIMANTAL WORK’ and has words like ‘CHEESE, CORN, MUSH, PAP.’
This brings us to the final set of words which we can easily arrange together. Words like “MUSHROOM,” “GRADUATE,” “SALARY,” and “BOTTLE” go in the same group.
The last four words describe all types of things that are capped. This completes the final group in this edition of NYT Connections.