Connections hints, clues and answers on Monday, July 21 2025
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Have you been playing Connections, the super fun word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It's pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we're here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:
1. Think sitcom.
2. Think water.
3. In addition.
4. Punctuation.
The answers are below this photo:
1. Concepts from "Seinfeld"
2. Phase transitions for liquids
3. Additional perk
4. What ' can indicate
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