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Connections #1,210 hints and answers for Saturday, October 3, 2026

Edited by Wyna Liu · Groups listed easiest to hardest: yellow, green, blue, purple

Connections #1,210 opens four entries with slang for a toilet in yellow, hides four stage musicals at the ends of longer phrases in green, starts four entries with American museums in blue, and ends four more with fantasy creatures in purple. For each group below: read the hint first, then show the category name when you want it, then the four words.

Group 1 - Yellow

Hint: read only the first word of each entry: CAN, HEAD, JOHN and W.C. are all terms for a toilet, hiding inside a kitchen tool, a restaurant role, a singer's name and a comedian's name.

STARTING WITH TERMS FOR "TOILET"

STARTING WITH TERMS FOR "TOILET"

CAN OPENER · HEAD WAITER · JOHN DENVER · W.C. FIELDS

Group 2 - Green

Hint: read only the last word of each entry: GREASE, CATS, HAMILTON and WICKED are all stage musicals, hiding inside an idiom for hard work, a phrase for the wealthy, an actor's name and a story title.

ENDING IN MUSICALS

ENDING IN MUSICALS

ELBOW GREASE · FAT CATS · LINDA HAMILTON · SOMETHING WICKED

Group 3 - Blue

Hint: read only the first word of each entry: BROAD, GETTY, MET and WHITNEY are all American art museums, hiding inside a bean, a photo agency, an idiom and a singer's name.

STARTING WITH U.S. MUSEUMS

STARTING WITH U.S. MUSEUMS

BROAD BEAN · GETTY IMAGES · MET HALFWAY · WHITNEY HOUSTON

Group 4 - Purple

Hint: read only the last word of each entry: SPRITE, GRIFFIN, GIANT and PHOENIX are all fantasy creatures, hiding inside a soda name, a talk-show host's name, a football team and an actor's name.

ENDING IN FANTASY CREATURES

ENDING IN FANTASY CREATURES

DIET SPRITE · MERV GRIFFIN · NY GIANT · RIVER PHOENIX
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