Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 19, 2024 (Puzzle #403)

When you don't have all the answers for it can feel very defeating to keep seeing «One Away» and not get the right answer. The good news is we're here to struggle so you don't have to and in this way, you can avoid the flames of frustration. Here are all of our tips and tricks for today's puzzle along with category names and answers for those that need them.

If you want to potentially see more flames of frustration, you can check out the daily puzzle. It's one of the more challenging of the NYT puzzle games as you have to not only spell out words but you have to do so without picking a letter on the same side as the previous one. It can make it difficult to solve but we do have some tips and tricks to help with that as well.

The Spelling Bee puzzles created as a New York Times game build a streak of correct answers to get you more points, but they can be hard to keep.

If you are burning to solve the puzzle but don't want any spoilers, we have a few hints about the categories that you can read before looking at any of the spoilers below.

ROMANTIC PARTNER

INSULT

GAS PUMP OPTIONS

___ TABLE

ROMANTIC PARTNER

FLAME

LOVER

STEADY

SWEETHEART

This one didn't actually get solved until we had two other categories done. STEADY was the one we were most unsure about as it's less a nickname and more of a relationship status. After we had narrowed it down to these words, the final category made it easier to guess. At that point, there were not many options for words that could refer to people.

INSULT

BURN

DIG

JAB

SLIGHT

This one is all about how people insult each other, whether it be more lighthearted such as a «sick BURN» or a «light JAB» or something more harmful like a DIG or a SLIGHT that feels very passive-aggressive.

This category had the only words that matched with actions people commit toward each other, so we managed to solve this one first. BURN and FLAME have some similarities, but there were no other fire-related words that felt obvious enough to