Overview

• The New York Times' Connections puzzle for April 21, 2025, features themes including nutrition labels, unexpected metaphors, spreadsheet elements, and helical shapes.
• The 16 words in Puzzle #679 include Cell, Iron, Twist, Sheet, Spring, Wrench, Protein, Corkscrew, DNA, Curveball, Column, Sodium, Bombshell, Row, Fat, and Fusilli.
• The answers group the words into Yellow: Fat, Iron, Protein, Sodium; Green: Bombshell, Curveball, Twist, Wrench; Blue: Cell, Column, Row, Sheet; and Purple: Corkscrew, DNA, Fusilli, Spring.
• Connections, launched in June 2023, remains one of the New York Times' most popular daily games, second only to Wordle.
• Daily hints and solutions for Connections puzzles, including Puzzle #679, are widely shared by media outlets to assist players in solving the challenges.