Note : Make sure to complete today’s NYT Connections before reading further! We’ll be getting into spoilers for today’s game pretty quickly. If you need some help to complete the grid, you can find my NYT Connections hints and answers column for today via my author page .

Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to my deeper dive into today’s Connections answers. The idea behind this is to help clear things up for anyone who isn’t sure how today’s groups fit together.

If I’ve missed any red herrings or misunderstood something, let me know via email or on Discord . I don’t typically look at X or check the comments here.

I’m going to assume that you’ve already beaten today’s game. We’re going straight into spoiler territory here. So, consider this your one and only warning .

Here are today’s NYT Connections answers explained (and any red herrings I spot) for Friday, July 24:

Today’s NYT Connections Answers Explained

Connections – Yellow Group

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Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase

🟨 talk at length (BABBLE, DRONE, RAMBLE, YAK)

The category title takes care of things of us here.

Connections – Green Group

🟩 outcomes for a batter (HOME RUN, SINGLE, STRIKEOUT, WALK)

A batter scores a SINGLE when they hit the ball and safely make it to first base.

If a pitcher throws four balls that are outside of the permitted area above home plate and the batter doesn’t swing at any of them, the latter earns a WALK. That means they can go to first base. If a player is already on first base when the batter earns a walk, they move to second base, and so on.

Sometimes, the defending team will allow an intentional WALK if they think it’ll be easier to put out the next batter in the lineup. They’d prefer to avoid the risk of the current batter hitting the ball and potentially scoring, especially if there are already players on base.

A batter will have a STRIKEOUT if they swing at and miss three pitches, or if three pitches hit the valid strike zone and they don’t swing.

On the other hand, they’ll score a HOME RUN if they hit the ball in such a way that they’re able to circle the bases without the fielding team making an error. Usually, this means they hit the ball over the fence or wall at the back of the field.

🟦 bring to mind, as a memory (JOG, PROMPT, REFRESH, SPARK)

To JOG or REFRESH (for instance) your memory means to recall a memory or piece of information.

Connections – Purple Group

🟪 homophones of religious roles (CANTER, FRYER, LLAMA, NONE)

  • CANTER > cantor
  • FRYER > friar
  • LLAMA > lama
  • NONE > nun

Connections – Red Herrings

I was a little worried that there might be a group of words related to generative A.I. nonsense. Folks who use chatbots might give them a PROMPT to get them to generate things. LLAMA is a group of foundational A.I. models created by Meta. SPARK is an A.I. tool used in the developer platform GitHub.

I suspect I overthought that as a potential red herring, though. Far too niche for this game. Unfortunately, I have to read about this guff every day, so it’s always on my mind. 😅

There was a clear red herring, though. WALK, RAMBLE, JOG and CANTER are all ways to move on foot.

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