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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — September 30, 2025
All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.
The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.
Theme name plus one word from each category.
AWKWARD, STIFF, STILTED, and WOODEN all describe mannerisms or behavior that seems unnatural, forced, or lacking in ease and fluency.
CHUCK, COULD, WOOD, and WOODCHUCK are all key words found in the famous tongue twister 'How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?'
FOGHORN (Leghorn from Looney Tunes), SCROOGE (McDuck from DuckTales), WOODSTOCK (from Peanuts), and WOODY (Woodpecker) are all iconic cartoon birds.
CLASSICS ends in '-six', CREATE ends in '-eight', GUTHRIE ends in '-three', and THEREFORE ends in '-four' — each word's ending sounds like a number when spoken aloud.