NYT Connections — July 21, 2026

Today's puzzle spans clothing, computers, theater, and a sci-fi-sounding prefix — four very different worlds collide.

One group is all about shirt or garment styles that describe how much skin (or sleeve) they show.

Another group covers things you install or add onto a computer to make it do more.

A third group names the ingredients that come together to make a stage musical work — the words, the score, the physical script, and the arranging of instruments.

The trickiest group isn't really four unrelated words — each one is secretly missing its front half. Bolt the same six-letter prefix meaning "distant" onto the remaining letters and you get a wired message, mind-over-matter powers, a broadcaster's cue-card screen, and the box in your living room.