HIGHLIGHTS
- Chippy meaning in today’s NYT Connections isn’t a touchy or defensive person. Instead, Chippy referred to an informal word in British for a fish-and-chip shop.
- The meaning of Butty in NYT Connections is an informal way to address a friend or a coworker (also called as bread and butter, or sandwich), and the word came under the ‘Britishisms’ category.
- ‘Crater,’ ‘Substantial, As A Meal,’ and ‘Accessible’ are the remaining categories for today’s NYT Connections.
NYT Connections features a 4×4 grid of words that go into four different groups separated by their color-coded difficulty.
Further, the words often don’t have their typical meaning, and in yesterday’s edition, Turkey and Weave had an interesting meaning.
For today, Chippy and Butty are some of the words on the grid that might confuse some players as they progress in today’s NYT Connections.
Answers For February 18 NYT Connections
To begin my solution for today’s NYT Connections, I noticed several words that end with the letter DY.
However, each of the words in today’s puzzle, which has a difficulty level of 2.5 out of 5, seemed to belong to different categories.
So, my first guess for today’s solution was Cavity, Hole, Hollow, and Pit, which gave me the yellow category “Crater.”

The words in this group are associated with empty spaces within solid objects. Moving ahead, I was confused about my next move, so I planned to pick the words more carefully.
Further, I chose Filling, Solid, Handy, and Nearby but was far from getting it right. Next, I picked Filling, Hearty, Solid, and Square, which made the blue category.
Similarly, the category titled “Substantial, As A Meal” included words to describe meals of considerable size or portions.
Chippy Meaning In NYT Connections
As I progressed further, I noticed that Available, Handy, Nearby, and Ready share a common thread.
Additionally, I grouped the words together and got the green category titled “Accessible” in today’s NYT Connections.
With the four remaining words on the grid, I placed Butty, Chippy, Footy, and Telly together for the purple category.

The category titled “Britishisms” included idioms used in Britain but not in other English-speaking countries.
In today’s NYT Connections, the meaning of Chippy wasn’t a touchy or defensive person. Instead, Chippy is referred to as an informal word in British for a fish-and-chip shop.
Butty Meaning With NYT Connections Final Categories
The remaining words in the purple category are related to British informal and slang terms like Butty.
The meaning of “Butty” in today’s NYT Connections is an informal way to address a friend or a coworker. The word is also used to describe a sandwich or bread and butter.

Moving on, Footy is an informal term for something that is poorly kept or even as an alternative to football (soccer), and Telly is another term for television.
With that, I completed today’s NYT Connections with the following answers:
- Crater (Yellow): Cavity, Hole, Hollow, Pit
- Substantial, As A Meal (Blue): Filling, Hearty, Solid, Square
- Accessible (Green): Available, Handy, Nearby, Ready
- Britishisms (Purple): Butty, Chippy, Footy, Telly