Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.
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Hint 1: One word from each group
Each of these words belongs to a different group.
- Yellow (easiest): BOIL
- Green: BLATHER
- Blue: FLURRY
- Purple (hardest): ALIBIS
Hint 2: A nudge for each group
A gentle push toward each theme, easiest to hardest.
- Feelings are running red hot, like a pot left unattended.
- Lots of chatter, not much substance.
- These menu favorites all wear the same tiny prefix.
- Each one finishes with a name you might hear from a flock.
Hint 3: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Seethe.
Hint 4: Green group theme
The green group is All Talk.
Hint 5: Blue group theme
The blue group is "mc" Things At Mcdonald's.
Hint 6: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Ending In Birds.
Show all four answers
Seethe
BOIL, FUME, RAVE, STEAM
All Talk
BLATHER, GAS, HOT AIR, WIND
"mc" Things At Mcdonald's
FLURRY, MUFFIN, NUGGETS, RIB
Ending In Birds
ALIBIS, BALLOON, ESCROW, MOHAWK
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): Seethe
- BOIL: (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- FUME: A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
- RAVE: An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
- STEAM: The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boil...
Green: All Talk
- BLATHER: (intransitive, derogatory) To talk rapidly without making much sense.
- GAS: (uncountable, physical chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained onl...
- HOT AIR: (idiomatic) Empty, confused, or exaggerated talk lacking meaning or substance; bluster.
- WIND: (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in...
Blue: "mc" Things At Mcdonald's
- FLURRY: A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- MUFFIN: A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typi...
- NUGGETS: a series of compilation albums, started by Elektra Records in 1972 and continued by Rhino Records thereafter.
- RIB: (anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from t...
Purple (hardest): Ending In Birds
- ALIBIS: (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in anot...
- BALLOON: An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- ESCROW: (law) A contractual arrangement whereby money or assets are held in trust by an independent agent by the agreement of...
- MOHAWK: A member of an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Q...
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