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): BUREAU
- Green: BUTTER
- Blue: ANGEL
- Purple (hardest): FOGERTY
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Places To Store Clothes.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Things That Come In Sticks.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Famous Perfumes.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Starting With Things That Cloud The Air.
Show all four answers
Places To Store Clothes
BUREAU, CHEST, TRUNK, WARDROBE
Things That Come In Sticks
BUTTER, DEODORANT, DYNAMITE, INCENSE
Famous Perfumes
ANGEL, COCO, OBSESSION, OPIUM
Starting With Things That Cloud The Air
FOGERTY, HAZEL, MISTER, VAPORETTO
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): Places To Store Clothes
- BUREAU: An administrative unit of government; office.
- CHEST: (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in s...
- TRUNK: A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, o...
- WARDROBE: (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
Green: Things That Come In Sticks
- BUTTER: A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- DEODORANT: An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.
- DYNAMITE: A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
- INCENSE: Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
Blue: Famous Perfumes
- ANGEL: An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a yout...
- COCO: Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
- OBSESSION: An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
- OPIUM: (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy...
Purple (hardest): Starting With Things That Cloud The Air
- FOGERTY: A surname from Irish.
- HAZEL: (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- MISTER: A man.
- VAPORETTO: A public water bus, originally steam-powered, found especially in Venice.
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