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September 13, 2026 Puzzle Breakdown

Four groups, four words each — here's the connections between today's words.

We are easing you in with the simplest group today, featuring words that all precede truck out on the road. Whether hauling refuse, pouring concrete, carrying cargo in the bed, or playing an obnoxious jingle through the neighborhood, each of these defines a specific heavy-duty vehicle. If this one held you up for more than a few seconds, the rest of the board is going to be a rough ride.

For the second group today, we cooled things off without any help from a cow. Popsicle, Italian ice, snowcone, and sorbet all offer sweet, frosty relief without a single drop of dairy in sight. If you were hunting for ice cream or gelato here, you were overcomplicating your dessert run.

Say them out loud and you will find toe, feet, sole, and heel. We took you from the bottom of your body into the third slot of the grid using simple homophones disguised as completely unrelated words. Hopefully, you did not get tripped up by the spelling.

If your mind immediately jumped to the produce aisle instead of high school geometry, you walked right into the hardest trap of the day. Each of these edible items conceals a standard trigonometric abbreviation at its tail end: tacos ends in cos, raisin in sin, rambutan in tan, and apricot in cot. Hopefully your math memory was sharp enough to calculate the connection before running out of guesses.