NYT Clues and Solutions for Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Crossword Puzzle
Alrighty, mate! It's about bloody time we cracked the NYT Connections puzzle for March 19, 2025! If you're ready to get a few hints and discover the answers to today's interrogation, stick around!
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For today, I'll divulge some indirect hints about the categories. Here we go:
- Yellow category: What it's all about when trying to make oneself understood.
- Green category: You might have seen 'em on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
- Blue category: It's what you pedal on, but you shouldn't roll on the crappy parts!
- Purple category: The French dudes say this before mentioning how it's done.
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Heads up about the tricky bits
Don't get all twisted about SHOULDER and BACK. BACK is when you go BACK, you know, navigationally.
In addition, SPELL refers to telling someone to say a word letter by letter.
Also, stay aware – MEDIAN and MODE don't work together. If you add a phrase to the beginning of MODE, you'll get a phrase meaning "with ice cream."
Categorical breakdown
Here you go, the lowdown on each grouping:
- Yellow: SIGNIFY
- EXPRESS
- CONVEY
- SPELL
- MEAN
- Green: WEB BROWSER BUTTONS
- BACK
- REFRESH
- FORWARD
- EXTENSIONS
- Blue: PARTS OF A ROAD
- SHOULDER
- MEDIAN
- LANE
- DIVIDER
- Purple: À/A LA _____
- PLANCHA
- MODE
- CARTE
- KING
Spoiler alert: The answers!
Oh, stop being a wet blanket and get ready to learn the answers to today's Connections conundrum!
Yellow answers
The yellow category involves ways of expressing oneself. The four words are: CONVEY, SPELL, MEAN, EXPRESS.
Green answers
The second-easiest group is all about your browser's buttons. The four words are: REFRESH, FORWARD, BACK, EXTENSIONS.
Blue answers
The blue grouping is a real quandary. The theme revolves around road parts. The four words are: DIVIDER, LANE, MEDIAN, SHOULDER.
Purple answers
The hardest group is based on French kitchen phrases. The four words are: CARTE, KING, MODE, PLANCHA.
Unraveling the enigma step by step
First off, I noticed MODE and CARTE, which might work with the French two-word phrase "a la," making common phrases like "with ice cream" and "sold individually." I wasn't seeing others that fit that structure yet.
CONVEY and EXPRESS could be synonyms, but I didn't see others that fit.
DIVIDER, MEAN, LANE, and SHOULDER could all describe parts of a road. Let's give it a whirl!
EXTENSIONS, huh? I thought it referred to hair extensions, but maybe it means internet browser add-ons, which would make it fit with BACK, REFRESH, and FORWARD, which are all found on an internet browser.
Oh, maybe PLANCHA is another "a la" phrase, meaning "cooked on a flat surface."
Now it's clear: CONVEY, MEAN, SPELL, and EXPRESS are all about communicating. CONVEY could mean to move, while SPELL implies something business-related. MEAN can, of course, mean to signify, and EXPRESS means to describe or convey an emotion, so there you have it!
That leaves us with KING being the other "a la" word, which goes with MODE, CARTE, and PLANCHA. Google tells us that "a la KING" refers to a dish made with mushrooms and cream sauce.
- Today's NYT Connections answers on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, can be found in the breakdown of categories below.
- The yellow category answers involve ways of expressing oneself. They are CONVEY, SPELL, MEAN, and EXPRESS.
- In the green category, the answers are REFRESH, FORWARD, BACK, and EXTENSIONS, which all relate to browser buttons.
- The blue category answers are DIVIDER, LANE, MEDIAN, and SHOULDER, all describing parts of a road.
- The purple category answers are CARTE, KING, MODE, and PLANCHA, which are French kitchen phrases. "A la CARTE" means "individually," "a la KING" refers to a dish made with mushrooms and cream sauce, "a la MODE" means "with ice cream," and "a la PLANCHA" means "cooked on a flat surface."
