New Delhi, July 13 -- The NYT Connections puzzle for Monday, July 13, 2026, is #1128. All four group answers are below.

Three spoiler-free hints come first for solvers still working through the board.

Hint 1: Three words on today's board - MUG, PUSS, and KISSER - all mean the same thing in slang. None of them belongs to the same category.

Hint 2: One group contains only famous fictional cats from film, television, and literature. All four are household names if you know the right stories.

Hint 3: The purple group is a wordplay category. Every entry begins with a word that means a quick kiss. The rest of the entry has nothing to do with romance.

Yellow - Interrogate

EXAMINE, GRILL, PUMP, QUESTION

Green - Things With Handles

BUCKET,...