Hey there, Connectors! I hope you’ve had a fantastic weekend so far.

While we’re in the midst of football fever during the World Cup, let me tell you a fun little factoid about my team, Dundee United. Reading a recent interview with Brian Cox (who, like me, is from Dundee) in The Athletic made me realize I haven’t shared this with you yet.

Dundee United’s most bitter rivals, Dundee, are located very close by. Just 200 yards down the street, actually:

They’re closer together than any other two senior football stadiums in the UK. Danny Dyer once said he “can’t get me nut round” how close together they are. But Dundee are moving to a new stadium on the outskirts of the city, so this fun wee fact won’t last much longer.

My dad’s a Dundee fan, and he took me to a few of their games when I was very small. But then I went with my uncle to a few United games and that was it for me. I had a season ticket for a few years before getting a job on Saturdays. Last time I went to a game there, we beat Celtic for the first time in forever. Looking forward to the next one. After Scotland win the World Cup, of course.

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, June 21 are coming right up.

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

And the level one hints for today’s Connections groups are:

Need some extra help? 

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one word for each group.

Today’s Connections word hints are…

Today’s Connections groups are...

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

As soon as I saw DIGGITY, my brain went to SCRUBS. Sure enough, that (and SURPRISES) was on the board too. However, I didn't see another partial song title that could be preceded by "no," so I put that notion aside at the outset.

Sure enough, I realized that SURPRISES had to go with the rest of the greens. As such, I figured DIGGITY had to have some wordplay going on. DIG(GITY) and BARB(ADOS) made sense to me, and it didn't take long after that to figure out the purple group, Diss and slap are the other two insults.

From there, the sitcoms became clear — I've been meaning to do a COMMUNITY re-watch! That left the yellow precipitation for a 476th win on this run that continues to baffle me.

How did you get on this time? Here's my grid:

🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨

SHOWERS, SPRINKLES, DRIZZLE and maaaybe DISSECT could have been a group as well. A double red herring day, I think!

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. I’ll be back over at Forbes for the Monday-Friday editions for the column. And if you haven’t subscribed to Pastimes already, definitely do that! It would be super sweet of you.

P.S. “No Surprises” is kinda laid back, right? I’m not a big Radiohead fan, but this a gorgeously sad song:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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