NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Tuesday, September 12 (#93)

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Save a struggling game of NYT Connections with our hints for the September 12 (#93) game, designed to give you a firm poke in the right direction without giving everything away. And if you would like to have everything given away you're in luck, because there's a full set of answers for today's puzzle just below.

I almost talked myself out of my first Connections today. It seemed a little too obvious—the sort of group obvious enough to be a guess-wasting trap. But seeing as nothing else grabbed my eye, I went with it anyway, and thank goodness I did. 

Yellow: Delicious, warm, and often caffeinated, these are all great drinks when you need to wake up in the morning or perk up during a busy day.

Green: You'll want to think of sounds, rather than words, to solve this one. Some can fly, some definitely can't, and another likes to curl up somewhere comfortable.

Blue: All you need to solve this one is a tree. Well, certain parts of one, anyway.

Purple: Only the hottest information gets called these words. This is news so new you'd have to be an insider to hear it. 

Don't scroll any further until you're ready for the full answers!

Yellow: Chai, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea (Hot drinks)

Green: Buzz, Cluck, Meow, Oink (Animal sounds)

Blue: Bark, Branch, Root, Trunk (Tree features)

Purple: Dirt, Dish, Scoop, Skinny (Inside info) 

Connections is the NYT's latest popular puzzle game where you have to find the common thread that ties four seemingly unrelated words together. Can you find all four increasingly challenging groups of words before you make four mistakes? Don't forget: every day only has one solution even if some words look like they could belong to more than one group, and you can (and should) shuffle the grid as many times as you