​Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s Wordle puzzle is fairly common word, with a mix of common and rare letters. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.. Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025. Today’s Wordle hints. Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats. Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels. Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel.. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter. Today’s Wordle answer begins with C.. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter. Today’s Wordle answer ends with P.. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning. Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a small device with interlocking pieces that fastens a necklace or bracelet.. TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER. Today’s Wordle answer is CLASP.. Yesterday’s Wordle answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 16, No. 1731, was DRAMA.. Recent Wordle answers. March 12, No. 1727: SMELL. March 13, No. 1728: EATEN. March 14, No. 1729: ANKLE. March 15, No. 1730: GRADE. What’s the best Wordle starting word?. Don’t be afraid to use our tip sheet ranking all the letters in the alphabet by frequency of uses. In short, you want starter words that lean heavy on E, A and R, and don’t contain Z, J and Q.. Some solid starter words to try:. ADIEU. TRAIN. CLOSE. STARE. NOISE  

​Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. I didn’t see the purple connection at all. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time. Hints for today’s Connections groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: Bad scene.. Green group hint: Sing out.. Blue group hint: Like rope, kind of.. Purple group hint: So fast!. Answers for today’s Connections groups. Yellow group: Metaphors for trouble.. Green group: Music theory concepts.. Blue group: Things with strings.. Purple group: Metaphors for quickness.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections answers?. The completed NYT Connections puzzle for March 17, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is metaphors for trouble. The four answers are bind, hot water, jam and pickle.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is music theory concepts. The four answers are key, pitch, scale and tone.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is things with strings. The four answers are balloon, kite, tea bag and yo-yo.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is metaphors for quickness. The four answers are arrow, lightning, rocket and wind.. Toughest Connections puzzles. We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.. #5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.. #4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.. #3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.. #2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.. #1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.  

​Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is fun and timely. Once you see the answers pop up in a special color, the theme will become obvious. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle. Today’s Strands theme is: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: The color of the holiday.. Clue words to unlock in-game hints. Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:. LIGHTER, OGRE, GREEN, GREET, GREETER, GORE, GORY, MORE, TEEN. Answers for today’s Strands puzzle. These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:. LIGHT, FLAG, ROOM, GODDESS, BERET, PEPPER, PARTY, THUMB (All these words can have “green” in front of them.). Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands puzzle for March 17, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Today’s Strands spangram is GOGREEN. To find it, look for the G that’s five letters down on the farthest-left vertical row, and wind across.. Toughest Strands puzzles. Here are some of the Strands topics I’ve found to be the toughest.. #1: Dated slang. Maybe you didn’t even use this lingo when it was cool. Toughest word: PHAT.. #2: Thar she blows! I guess marine biologists might ace this one. Toughest word: BALEEN or RIGHT.. #3: Off the hook. Again, it helps to know a lot about sea creatures. Sorry, Charlie. Toughest word: BIGEYE or SKIPJACK.  

​Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s not too tough — only 1-Down puzzled me until I filled in the other responses. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword. Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for March 17, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Mini across clues and answers. 1A clue: One drawing X’s and O’s. Answer: COACH. 6A clue: Company whose market cap (~$4 trillion) exceeds the G.D.P. of most countries. Answer: APPLE. 7A clue: “Chill!”. Answer: RELAX. 8A clue: Do some rhythmic tapping. Answer: DRUM. 9A clue: Back talk. Answer: SASS. Mini down clues and answers. 1D clue: What’s the deal?. Answer: CARDS. 2D clue: “The Phantom of the ___”. Answer: OPERA. 3D clue: Excellent grade. Answer: APLUS. 4D clue: Sandpipers dig for them in the sand. Answer: CLAMS. 5D clue: Evil spell. Answer: HEX  

​Volvo is pulling the plug on its smallest and least expensive EV this week. The automaker is winding down US-bound production and imports of the EX30 and EX30 Cross Country over the coming weeks, with the last examples wrapping up the 2026 model year at the end of this summer due to financial and market considerations. In other words, tariffs are up, and sales are down.. It’s a tough time to be selling EVs in the US right now. Volvo joins a growing list of automakers reassessing or outright canceling their electric car ambitions in the US due to market and political conditions over the last year. Earlier this year, Chevrolet announced that it would be ending production of its highly anticipated Chevrolet Bolt revival after just one model year. Last week, Honda announced the cancellation of its upcoming 0-Series of US-built electric cars before even reaching production, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.. The EX30’s arrival and short stay in the US has been fraught with challenges. The small SUV was first announced in 2023, billed as an affordable electric option starting below $35,000. I was impressed by the EX30 during my first drive review, calling it my most anticipated affordable EV of 2024. Volvo initially planned to keep manufacturing costs down by building the EX30 in China, but Biden administration tariffs forced the automaker to move production of US-bound examples to its plant in Ghent, Belgium.. By the time the EX30 arrived in the US, it was thousands of dollars more than initially predicted. Antuan Goodwin/CNET. Preproduction software issues further delayed the EV’s limited arrival to late 2024 with sales ramping up in early 2025 — just in time to get hit by the Trump administration’s unpredictable new tariffs. Today, the EX30 starts at $40,344 in the US, then climbs to just shy of $50,000 for the dual-motor model with the best tech — a tough sell for a subcompact SUV even at the best of times. In 2025, Volvo reported only 5,409 EX30s sold in the US and a 60.5% decrease in overall electrified vehicle sales versus 2024.. When reached for comment, a representative from Volvo confirmed that, “Volvo Car USA has decided to end sales of the EX30 and EX30 Cross Country in the US market after the 2026 model year.”. The automaker tells me that the EX30 will remain available in global markets and will continue to be imported and sold in Mexico and Canada. Recently, Volvo’s flagship EX90 — which is built at Volvo’s South Carolina factory — ceased 2026 model year exports to Canada, a victim of retaliatory counter tariffs aimed at the US. When asked how this shakeup will affect its roadmap, a Volvo representative told CNET that the company’s goal of a fully electrified global lineup by 2030 remains unchanged.. Volvo only sold 5,409 EX30s in 2025. Antuan Goodwin/CNET. “Volvo Cars’ commitment to electrification and our customers remains unchanged,” the representative told CNET, “and we look forward to continuing to bring exciting new electr