NYT Connections Answer Today (#1193) β 16 Sep 2026 Solution & Hints
- About Today’s Connections
- The 16 Words
- Definitions of the 16 Words
- General Hints
- Category Titles
- One Word per Category
- Complete Solution (Click to Reveal)
About Today’s Connections
Puzzle #1193 (published September 16, 2026). Sort 16 words into four groups of four, based on a hidden connection. Some words look like they belong together and don’t — that’s by design.
The 16 Words
Here are the 16 words, sorted alphabetically to avoid spoilers:
- BARRETT
- BORAT
- CARLOS
- CLINK
- DIMENSION
- FRANK-N-FURTER
- LATIN
- LONG JOHN SILVER
- MARIGOLD
- NICKELODEON
- PENNYWISE
- QUARTERBACK
- ST. VINCENT
- STEAM IRON
- WADSWORTH
- WIDENER
Definitions of the 16 Words
| BARRETT | A small clip used to hold hair in place, also a surname carried by a famous poet. |
| BORAT | A fictional bumbling Kazakh journalist played by Sacha Baron Cohen in a mockumentary comedy series. |
| CARLOS | A common Spanish-language given name, also a poet’s middle name. |
| CLINK | Old-fashioned slang for jail or a jail cell. |
| DIMENSION | A measurable extent of something, like length or width, or a facet of a larger issue. |
| FRANK-N-FURTER | The flamboyant mad scientist from a famous cult horror-comedy stage musical and film. |
| LATIN | The classical language of ancient Rome, ancestor of French, Spanish, and Italian. |
| LONG JOHN SILVER | The cunning one-legged ship’s cook from a classic 19th-century pirate novel. |
| MARIGOLD | A cheerful orange or yellow garden flower often planted in late summer. |
| NICKELODEON | A cheap early-1900s movie theater, or today, a well-known children’s TV channel. |
| PENNYWISE | A shape-shifting clown villain from a famous horror novel and its film adaptations. |
| QUARTERBACK | The offensive player in American football who typically throws passes and calls plays. |
| ST. VINCENT | A musician’s stage name, also part of a Pulitzer-winning poet’s full name. |
| STEAM IRON | A household appliance that uses heated water vapor to press wrinkles out of clothing. |
| WADSWORTH | A surname tied to a celebrated 19th-century American poet. |
| WIDENER | A surname best known from a major university library named for the family that funded it. |
General Hints
- Each answer wraps up with the name of a shiny metallic element hiding at the very end of the word.
- Every entry in this group opens with a term for a small piece of American pocket change.
- These four share a link to poets, but only through the part of their name that isn’t first or last.
- Take a well-known type of sausage, tack on one extra letter, and you’ll land on the answer.
Category Titles
- 🟨 Yellow: Ending in Metal Elements
- 🟩 Green: Starting with U.S. Coins
- 🟦 Blue: Poets’ Middle Names
- 🟪 Purple: Sausages Plus a Letter
One Word per Category
- 🟨 Yellow: MARIGOLD
- 🟩 Green: QUARTERBACK
- 🟦 Blue: WADSWORTH
- 🟪 Purple: CLINK
Complete Solution
The full breakdown is below — tap to reveal all four groups:
[CLICK TO REVEAL: Full Solution]
NYT Connections #1193 — Full Groups
- 🟨 Yellow: Ending in Metal Elements → LATIN, LONG JOHN SILVER, MARIGOLD, STEAM IRON
- 🟩 Green: Starting with U.S. Coins → DIMENSION, NICKELODEON, PENNYWISE, QUARTERBACK
- 🟦 Blue: Poets’ Middle Names → BARRETT, CARLOS, ST. VINCENT, WADSWORTH
- 🟪 Purple: Sausages Plus a Letter → BORAT, CLINK, FRANK-N-FURTER, WIDENER
The purple group is a real stretch of wordplay — you have to mentally strip a letter off each answer to find the hot dog hiding underneath, which makes it one of the trickiest twists we’ve seen in a while.
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