Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 3, #1118

The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 3, #1118, features categories including positive feelings, retro expressions of approval, bad things to give someone, and things pronounced 'T'. The answers are bliss, felicity, happiness, warm fuzzies; cool beans, far out, groovy, right on; cold shoulder, dirty look, hard time, runaround; and golf accessory, gossip, hot drink, shirt.

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