Connections clue archive

September 2026 Connections clues and definitions — Page 5

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Each blue entry places an abbreviation before a word whose meaning is already represented by the abbreviation's final letter.

The green group consists of four computer hardware locations that receive a card, plug, disc or USB connector.

The purple group ignores each phrase's main subject and instead reads its ending as an action that can carve or mark a surface.

The yellow group collects four established phrases for broad freedom to decide, spend or act without meaningful limits.

SWAY, TODDLE, TOTTER and WOBBLE are verbs for movement marked by imbalance, uncertain footing or irregular side-to-side motion.

Each tile becomes a dessert name when exactly one letter is restored at the end: COBBLER, PIE, TART and TORTE.

Adding HEAD directly after BOBBLE, HAMMER, JUG and SLEEPY produces four established compounds or familiar combined forms.

COO, GOBBLE, HONK and WARBLE are words that imitate or conventionally represent recognizable sounds made by particular birds.

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