Today's puzzle asks you to spend some African currency at the club with your familia.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for July 25 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,140. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,139, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Steak
- Leone
- Primo
- Mall
- Madre
- Mist
- Poker
- Choke
- Club
- Rand
- Tear
- Naira
- Hijo
- Kwanza
- Well
- Abuela
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Familia
- 🟩 Green: Sad
- 🟦 Blue: Pesa
- 🟪 Purple: Remove
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Spanish relatives
- 🟩 Green: Start to cry, with "up"
- 🟦 Blue: African currencies
- 🟪 Purple: Strip ____
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on July 25 for puzzle #1,140 are harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.7 out of 5.
- 🟨 Spanish relatives: Abuela, hijo, madre, primo
- 🟩 Start to cry, with "up": Choke, mist, tear, well
- 🟦 African currencies: Kwanza, leone, naira, rand
- 🟪 Strip ____: Club, mall, poker, steak
I've been teaching myself Spanish with the bird app, so I locked in on the familia pretty quickly. So we have Abuela, hijo, madre and primo. If you have suggestions for a learning app or program that you find works, let me know; I'm open.
I wasn't thinking currencies when I started putting rand, leone, kwanza and rand together, but I was thinking of Africa, so it worked out.
The strips finally clicked here with strip mall, strip steak, strip poker and strip club.
Which left choke, mist, tear and well as my final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Talk at length: Babble, drone, ramble, yak
- 🟩 Outcomes for a batter: Home run, single, strikeout, walk
- 🟦 Bring to mind, as a memory: Job, prompt, refresh, spark
- 🟪 Homophones of a religious roles: Canter, fryer, llama, none
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,139, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
I've had baseball on the mind as my favorite team plays seemingly perfect .500 ball. So I started wtih home run, single, strikeout and walk.
I did take a strike trying out what I thought were social media apps like Yak, but I was thinking of Yik Yak. To reset, I used yak to get the yellow set with babble, drone, ramble and yak.
Next, I went to the memory bank with refresh, spark, prompt and jog.
This left the religious homophones of canter (cantor), fryer (friar), llama (lama), and none (nun).
