If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1136 features some heavy misdirection, with several words seemingly fitting into a tech or fashion theme before pulling the rug out from under you.
Below are strategic, spoiler-free hints to help you group today’s words on your own, followed by the exact categories and answers at the bottom of the page.
Today’s Connections Strategy & Commentary
Watch out for the red herrings today. At first glance, words like App and Extension look like an obvious match for a general tech theme, but committing to that group early will cost you lives. We recommend looking closely at the terms first, separating style related words from software terms will make the remaining 12 words significantly easier to manage.
Connections Hints Today: Category Clues
If you just need a nudge to get your brain moving in the right direction, here are clues for the four color-coded groups:
- 🟨 Yellow Group Hint (Easiest): Different styles of upper body clothing
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): Items you add to a computer or device to install extra features
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): Parts that come together to create a stage production
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): These words all complete the longer word starting with “tele”
Stuck on one word? If you have Prompter, try looking at how it forms a longer compound word rather than by its literal definition. It might belong to the trickier Purple group today!
NYT Connections Answers Today: Tuesday, July 21, 2026
⚠️Spoiler Warning: Beyond this point lies the full solution for Puzzle #1136. If you still want to solve the grid yourself using the clues above, do not scroll down.
Here are the completed categories and groupings for today’s puzzle:
🟨 Yellow Group: Kinds Of Tops
- Crop
- Halter
- Tank
- Tube
🟩 Green Group: Software Downloads
- App
- Driver
- Extension
- Plugin
🟦 Blue Group: Elements Of A Musical
- Book
- Lyrics
- Music
- Orchestration
🟪 Purple Group: Tele_____
- Gram
- Kinesis
- Prompter
- Vision
Previous Answer
NYT Connections Answer for July 20, 2026 (Puzzle #1135): Announce, Things To Click, Associated With Pearls, Starting With Alcoholic Beverages
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Join the Discussion
Did today’s puzzle give you a perfect “Reverse Rainbow” (solving Purple to Yellow), or did the red herrings wipe out your board?
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