NYT Connections — September 25, 2026

Today's board moves from words meaning fancy or upscale, to components inside a mechanical clock, to celebrities who all share the first name Dan, and finally to taxonomic ranks each with one extra letter slipped in.

Yellow (easiest): each of these describes something stylish, upscale, or extravagant.

Green: each of these is a mechanical part you'd find inside a traditional pendulum clock.

Blue: each of these is the surname of a famous person whose first name is Dan.

Purple (hardest): each of these is a biological classification rank — order, family, genus, or class — with one extra letter tucked in.