NYT Connections: clues for finding 4 groups

• For NYT Connections for four groups, published clues to find the right words, green ones, and yellow ones.
• Try to find the words for each category: Persist, Kinds of Poems, Tropical Drinks, and Sweet ____.
• The material explains that the principle of the game is to combine words by their similarity.

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The material on NYT Connections published clues for solving the puzzle for four groups. Green ones are those that are already found, and yellow ones are those that are close to the correct words.

For the categories, the solution is as follows: for the green group — Keep going, for the yellow group — Not necessarily rhyming, for the blue group — A treat on the beach, for the purple group — [Word]_____.

Here are the groups of words with their themes: green group — Persist, yellow group — Kinds of Poems, blue group — Tropical Drinks, purple group — Sweet ____.

Here are the clues for each group: green — CONTINUE, LAST, LINGER, STAY; yellow — BALLAD, EPIC, ODE, VILLANELLE; blue — HURRICANE, PAINKILLER, SCORPION, ZOMBIE; purple — DREAMS, NOTHINGS, PEA, SPOT.

However, the material notes that the puzzle requires more than just knowing the clues and correctly combining words.