Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 1, #1147

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is fun but challenging. As a hobbyist baker, I enjoyed the purple category. Blue is a bit wild today. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers.

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Zzzz…

Green group hint: The envelope, please.

Blue group hint: Similar manufacturing jobs.

Purple group hint: Yeast and flour.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Bedding.

Green group: Oscar-winning actors since 2010.

Blue group: Perform some hole machining operations.

Purple group: Starting with bread shapes.

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is bedding.

The four answers are comforter, sham, sheet and throw.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is Oscar-winning actors since 2010.

The four answers are (Christian) Bale, (Michael B.) Jordan, (Joaquin) Phoenix and (Christoph) Waltz.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is perform some hole machining operations.

The four answers are bore, countersink, drill and ream.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is starting with bread shapes.

The four answers are boulevard (boule), bundle (bun), loafer (loaf) and Rolls-Royce (roll).

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She’s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She’s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.

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