Here are the NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, September 23, 2025, puzzle #835. Stop after the hints if you want to solve it yourself; the full groups and tiles follow.
Hints for the September 23 Connections groups
- Yellow: A happy disposition; smiling from ear to ear.
- Green: A famous tongue twister about tiny humans.
- Blue: Checking in, or an airplane addition.
- Purple: Classic film characters and movies from the leg-warmer era.
Answers for Connections #835
Yellow: Cheerful
BOUNCY, BRIGHT, MERRY, SUNNY
Green: “Rubber baby buggy bumper”
BABY, BUGGY, BUMPER, RUBBER
Blue: Kinds of luggage
CARRY-ON, DUFFEL, HARD-SHELL, ROLLER
Purple: Title characters in ’80s movies
FERRIS, HEATHER, INDIANA, PEE-WEE. These names point to Ferris Bueller, the Heathers, Indiana Jones, and Pee-wee Herman in movie titles.
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Why the groups can be tricky
The green tiles form the familiar tongue twister when read together. A fairground-looking decoy may emerge from FERRIS, BUMPER, ROLLER, and MERRY, but those words belong to different groups: BUMPER is part of the tongue twister, ROLLER is luggage, and FERRIS and MERRY fit elsewhere. The movie-title names can be easier to place once the other sets are identified.
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Use BUGGY and DUFFEL for the tiles. Parade’s category heading has a BUGGER typo even though its tile list gives BUGGY, and its answer set uses DUFFLE. TechRadar, TheWordFinder, and the archive listing support BUGGY and DUFFEL.
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Puzzle number and source note
Contemporaneous guides identify the September 23 puzzle as #835. One archive search result gives #879 for that date, but that conflicts with same-date coverage and the neighboring September 22–24 entries. No official NYT archive page for this historical puzzle was available to confirm the number, so #835 is the supported identification rather than an official confirmation.
The clue descriptions above are editorial paraphrases from contemporaneous guides, not verified official NYT clue text. The answer groups and tile spellings are supported by multiple secondary pages.
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