This archived NYT Connections puzzle is game #892, for Wednesday, November 19, 2025. Below are progressively stronger clues, followed by the complete groups and answers. A transcription discrepancy affects one yellow-group word, so it is flagged in the solution.
Hints for Connections #892
Start with the category clues if you want to solve the puzzle without seeing every answer. Each group contains four words.
- Yellow: Think about a stocky build.
- Green: These words can mean to steer or direct.
- Blue: Look for second words in Edgar Allan Poe story titles that begin with “The.”
- Purple: Each answer is an organ with one letter added.
Spoiler warning: full grid and answers
The complete answer guide follows.
The sixteen listed tiles
SQUAT, SHEPHERD, PIT, FALL, LUNGE, LEAD, SKINK, SOLID, HUSKY, CASK, DIRECT, COLONY, GUIDE, THINK, MASQUE, HEARTH.
Yellow: STOCKY
The reported yellow group is HUSKY, SOLID, SQUAT, and THICK. These words describe a stocky or thickset build. There is a source-text discrepancy: the listed grid contains THINK where the solution gives THICK. The guides do not establish which spelling appeared in the original game interface, so the reported answer should not be silently substituted into the grid.
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#1 Best Overall
Green: STEER
DIRECT, GUIDE, LEAD, and SHEPHERD can each mean to steer or guide someone or something.
Blue: second words in Poe stories, after “The”
CASK, FALL, MASQUE, and PIT are the second words in the titles The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Rank #2
Purple: ORGAN PLUS A LETTER
COLONY changes COLON by one letter; HEARTH changes HEART; LUNGE changes LUNG; and SKINK changes SKIN.
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Connections is a New York Times word game built around sorting sixteen items into four groups of four. Forbes describes play on the NYT website or Games app and says archive access requires an All Access or Games subscription; those are the access terms reported in its November 2025 guide, not a guarantee of current policy. Check the NYT Games Connections page for current game access.
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