NYT Connections for March 7, #635, Includes Easter Eggs for Severance

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Do you watch Severance on Apple TV Plus, the unnerving show about people who agree to a procedure that means they don’t know who they are outside of work when they’re at their jobs, and vice-versa? You’ll see a bunch of clues reminiscent of the show in today’s Connections puzzle. You don’t have to know the show to solve the puzzle because the categories stand on their own, but the clues serve as little Easter eggs for Severance viewers. (Lumon, the name of the mysterious company, is even one of the clues–and wait till you see how they shoehorned it into a category.) Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Something that may be used as a heraldic device.

Green group hint: Have you seen A Complete Unknown yet?

Blue group hint: Seattle and Minneapolis, also.

Purple group hint: Not vegetables, but…

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Emblem.

Green group: Subjects of acclaimed musical biopics.

Blue group: US cities.

Purple group: Fruits with their second letters changed.

What are today’s Connections answers?

The completed NYT Connections puzzle for March 7, 2025, #635.

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is emblem. The four answers are label, mark, seal and stamp.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is subjects of acclaimed musical biopics. The four answers are Brown, Cash, Dylan and Mercury.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is US cities. The four answers are Buffalo, Helena, Irving and Phoenix.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is fruits with their second letters changed. The four answers are ample, dote, lumon and poach. (For apple, date, lemon and peach.)

Toughest Connections puzzles

We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.

#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.

#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.

#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.

#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.

#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.

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