NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sunday, August 3, 2025 (Puzzle #784)

NYT Connections puzzle #784 for Sunday, August 3, 2025, groups its words around mimicking, sports, a song from Wicked, and animal-named bands. Read the hints first; the spoiler warning marks where the full solution begins.

Hints for Connections #784

Try each clue before moving on to the next:

1. Things a mockingbird does.
2. Games you might play to keep fit.
3. A famous song from Wicked.
4. Musical groups that took the names of animals.

Spoiler warning: answers below

Connections answers for August 3, 2025

The puzzle’s four categories and words are:

• EMULATE: COPY, ECHO, MIRROR, PARROT
• SPORTS: CRICKET, GOLF, POLO, SQUASH
• MANIA: BUG, CRAZE, FAD, FEVER
• SINGLE ANIMAL IN A CREATIVELY SPELLED BAND NAME: BEETLE, BIRD, GORILLA, MONKEY

About this puzzle

This is the Sunday, August 3, 2025, edition of NYT Connections, puzzle #784. Kenn C. Bivins’s Parade guide, published that day, provides the hints and solutions: Parade’s Connections hints and answers.

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