New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- The NYT Connections answers today, for Monday, August 24, 2026, solve puzzle #1170. The four groups are fish, words meaning principal, pro-wrestling jargon, and tennis terms with a letter sound stuck on the front.

The grid is built around one deliberate cruelty. ARCH, HEEL and SOLE are all parts of a foot, they are sitting in the same sixteen squares, and they belong to three different groups.

Connections Hints Today, August 24, 2026 (#1170)

Yellow: four of these swim.

Green: four ways of saying first in rank.

Blue: vocabulary from a scripted sport.

Purple: say each one aloud. A single letter of the alphabet is hiding at the front of a tennis word.

Connections Answers Today: All Four Groups (#1170)

Yellow, Fi...