Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.
Hint 1: One word from each group
Each of these words belongs to a different group.
- Yellow (easiest): BOUGIE
- Green: ESCAPEMENT
- Blue: AYKROYD
- Purple (hardest): BORDER
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Luxe.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Parts Of A Mechanical Clock.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Famous Dans.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Taxonomic Ranks Plus A Letter.
Show all four answers
Luxe
BOUGIE, FANCY, POSH, SWANK
Parts Of A Mechanical Clock
ESCAPEMENT, PENDULUM, RATCHET, SPRING
Famous Dans
AYKROYD, LEVY, RATHER, SAVAGE
Taxonomic Ranks Plus A Letter
BORDER, CLASSY, FOAMILY, GENIUS
About this puzzle
- Edited by Wyna Liu
- Groups are listed from easiest (yellow) to hardest (purple).
Connections deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.
Yellow (easiest): Luxe
- BOUGIE: (slang, usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois...
- FANCY: The imagination.
- POSH: Stylish; elegant; exclusive; luxurious; expensive.
- SWANK: Fashionably elegant, posh.
Green: Parts Of A Mechanical Clock
- ESCAPEMENT: (clocks, mechanics) The linkage in a (watch) that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases...
- PENDULUM: (clocks, mechanics) A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence...
- RATCHET: A ratchet wrench.
- SPRING: (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
Blue: Famous Dans
- AYKROYD
- LEVY: (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- RATHER: Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than)
- SAVAGE: Fierce and ferocious.
Purple (hardest): Taxonomic Ranks Plus A Letter
- BORDER: The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- CLASSY: Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
- FOAMILY: In a foamy manner.
- GENIUS: (countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by ...
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