Connections #1074 Answers
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #1074 for Wednesday, May 20, 2026. The 16 words split into four groups by colour — yellow is easiest, purple the trickiest. The group themes are listed first as hints, then every group is revealed below. Looking for the latest puzzle? See today's Connections.
Hints — the four group themes
- Yellow (easiest): stove knob settings
- Green: potency
- Blue: music theory concepts
- Purple (hardest): "___ day" movies
Answers
STOVE KNOB SETTINGS
HIGH, MEDIUM, OFF, SIMMER
POTENCY
CONCENTRATION, FORCE, INTENSITY, MIGHT
MUSIC THEORY CONCEPTS
INTERVAL, KEY, MODE, SCALE
"___ DAY" MOVIES
GROUNDHOG, INDEPENDENCE, THE LONGEST, TRAINING
Previous Connections answers
- #1073 — things babies do, modify deceptively, judy blume books, fish minus a letter
- #1072 — homophones, rupture, mlb player, fruit anagrams
- #1071 — conduit, swindle, tea-making verbs, "school" modifiers
- #1070 — glassware, mess around (with), music performance directions, ending in synonyms for "asap"
- #1069 — navigate through, as a river, multi-time nba mvps, non-palindromic words in a famous palindrome, homophones of kinds of dogs, familiarly
- #1068 — premonition, cellphone modes, bad things to do in modern dating, phrases whose second words include their first word
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