Connections #1075 Answers
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #1075 for Thursday, May 21, 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): kinds of pies
- Green: things associated with butts
- Blue: tennis scoring terms
- Purple (hardest): ___ mustard
Answers
KINDS OF PIES
CHESS, PECAN, PUMPKIN, SHOOFLY
THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH BUTTS
CABOOSE, CAN, MOON, PEACH
TENNIS SCORING TERMS
ADVANTAGE, DEUCE, FORTY, LOVE
___ MUSTARD
COLONEL, HONEY, HOT, YELLOW
Previous Connections answers
- #1074 — stove knob settings, potency, music theory concepts, "___ day" movies
- #1073 — things babies do, modify deceptively, judy blume books, fish minus a letter
- #1072 — homophones, rupture, mlb player, fruit anagrams
- #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
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