Global Powers Vie Over a Grid: How a NYT Connections Hint on Sept 19 Became the World’s Smallest Trade War
The planet’s favorite daily crossword-adjacent guilt trip, Connections, coughed up another grid on September 19, and—as usual—half the world pretended to be above such American parlor games while secretly screenshotting the answers. From Lagos to Lisbon, commuters swiped through the pastel puzzle, convinced that grouping four varieties of “things that melt” was a more productive…