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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — September 13, 2026
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.
DROOPY, FLACCID, SAGGING, and SLACK all mean lacking firmness or tension — limp, loose, or hanging without support
CLEVELAND, GARFIELD, GRANT, and MADISON are all U.S. Presidents — Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, and James Madison
EMPTY sounds like M-T, EXCESS sounds like X-S, KEWPIE sounds like Q-P, and ODIE sounds like O-D — each word phonetically spells two letters
DOUBLESPEAK ends in PEAK, HEATHCLIFF ends in CLIFF, PARAMOUNT ends in MOUNT, and PORRIDGE ends in RIDGE — all elevated landforms