The New York Times Sports Connections puzzle for October 17, 2026 (No. 754) features four categories of increasing difficulty: yellow covers items needed for aquatic competition; green focuses on suffixes in UK football club names; blue highlights college football award winners; and purple—the hardest category—involves words formed by removing the first letter from women's professional basketball team names. The puzzle rates 3 out of 5 in difficulty, with connection strength determining category placement, from direct associations in easier sections to loosely connected terms in harder ones.
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