Need help for Connections? Here are hints for today's puzzle in The New York Time's Connections game, with spoiler warnings ...

Straightforward ideas behind categories dominate today's Connections puzzle, which can easily fool you if you don't have some hints guiding you.

Each week, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz presents an on-air quiz to one contestant and gives a challenge for listeners at home.