Connections hints, clues and answers on Tuesday, August 19 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 alcohol.
2. Blah blah blah.
3. Hard thing.
4. Speedy, sort of.
The answers are below this photo:
1. Fortified wines
2. Quite the talker
3. ____ rock
4. Starting with ways to move quickly.
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