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NYT Connections hints for August 15
Try these category nudges before looking at the four words in each group. They are hints, not the puzzle’s official category labels.
- Yellow: Chicken pieces
- Green: Sorting the check
- Blue: Superb
- Purple: Partially fancy snacks
The grid contains TAKE CARE OF, HAZE, PAY, PEC, FOOT, FINE, CASH, THIGH, BREAST, MAC, CAPITAL, TENDER, GRAND, WING, SETTLE and BRILLIANT.
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- Yellow: Think of familiar cuts of poultry.
- Green: Each phrase can mean taking care of what you owe.
- Blue: Look for words that can mean splendid.
- Purple: Each word is the beginning of a culinary nut’s name.
Spoilers: Connections answers for August 15, game #796
Stop here if you want to solve the puzzle yourself. The full group titles and answers begin below.
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Yellow — POULTRY CUTS
BREAST, TENDER, THIGH, WING
Green — HANDLE, AS A BILL
FOOT, PAY, SETTLE, TAKE CARE OF
FOOT fits the idiom “foot the bill.” The other entries are also ways to describe paying or settling a bill.
Blue — SPLENDID
BRILLIANT, CAPITAL, FINE, GRAND
Purple — STARTS OF CULINARY NUTS
CASH, HAZE, MAC, PEC
These are the opening portions of cashew, hazelnut, macadamia and pecan. The entries are not complete nut names, which makes this group easier to miss.
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The grid’s misdirection comes from familiar words that can plausibly point in more than one direction. TENDER, for example, can evoke a chicken tender, while CASH and PAY suggest money; the green group is about actions or phrases for handling a bill, not simply words associated with money. For purple, expand each short entry into a nut name rather than looking for four whole food words.
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