New Delhi, July 6 -- Monday arrives with puzzle #1121 from the New York Times Connections, and the grid covers more range than usual for the start of the week. Editor Wyna Liu gives solvers four categories that move from headline vocabulary to science classroom staples to Saturday morning cartoons and then, in the purple group, into wordplay that requires knowing the names of dating apps. That final group is the only genuinely hard part of this grid, but it will catch anyone who overlooks the word-within-a-word structure entirely.

For anyone new to Connections, the game presents sixteen words that must be sorted into four groups of four. Yellow is the most accessible, green and blue sit in the middle, and purple is reserved for lateral t...