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Note: One of the categories in today’s New York Times Connections puzzle involves a type of ingredient I recently used when baking cookies for my annual cookie swap. And another game exploits puzzle editors’ love of word games, such as removing letters from famous words or names and making them into other words. Do you need more hints and answers? Read on.

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Notes for today’s Connections groups

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

Note on the yellow group: Like salt.

Note from the green group: Not doing it well.

Note on the blue group: Read quickly.

Note on the purple group: Play with singer names.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Spices.

Green group: Perform poorly.

Blue group: Browse through pages.

Purple group: Pop singer without “S.”

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What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The topic is spices. The four answers are clove, mace, nutmeg and pepper.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is poorly executed. The four answers are flail, flop, flounder and tank.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The topic is browsed through as pages. The four answers are Flip, Leaf, Riffle and Thumb.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is pop singers without an “S”. The four answers are Key, Mar, Spear and Style.