Connections #1072 Answers
Monday, May 18, 2026
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #1072 for Monday, May 18, 2026. The 16 words split into four groups by colour — yellow is easiest, purple the trickiest. The group themes are listed first as hints, then every group is revealed below. Looking for the latest puzzle? See today's Connections.
Hints — the four group themes
- Yellow (easiest): homophones
- Green: rupture
- Blue: mlb player
- Purple (hardest): fruit anagrams
Answers
HOMOPHONES
PAIR, PARE, PEAR, PÈRE
RUPTURE
BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT
MLB PLAYER
PADRE, RED, ROYAL, TWIN
FRUIT ANAGRAMS
CHEAP, EARP, LUMP, WIKI
Previous Connections answers
- #1071 — conduit, swindle, tea-making verbs, "school" modifiers
- #1070 — glassware, mess around (with), music performance directions, ending in synonyms for "asap"
- #1069 — navigate through, as a river, multi-time nba mvps, non-palindromic words in a famous palindrome, homophones of kinds of dogs, familiarly
- #1068 — premonition, cellphone modes, bad things to do in modern dating, phrases whose second words include their first word
- #1067 — long sandwich, pretext, smartphone photo editing options, jelly ___
- #1066 — substantial book, "saint" cities, "long" things, currencies plus a letter
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