Connections #1,243 hints and answers for Thursday, November 5, 2026
Connections #1,243 brings back a repeat offender: WEDGE was on yesterday's board as a shape, and today it returns in a new job, under your foot. ROSE is working just as hard - it is a color, a wine and a past-tense verb before it is ever a flower. Sort the meanings, not the first impressions. For each group below: read the hint first, then show the category name when you want it, then the four words, one careful group at a time.
Group 1 - Yellow
Hint: look down at a pair of heels: four styles of the raised part under a shoe, from the short and dainty one named for a young cat to the solid sole that lifts the whole foot at once.
KINDS OF HEELS
KINDS OF HEELS
Group 2 - Green
Hint: four blooms for the garden: a sea anemone's namesake, a sacred water flower, the daffodil's formal name, and the most famous flower of all.
FLOWERS
FLOWERS
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: four things shaped like a falling drop of water, pointed at the top and round at the bottom: a fruit, the drop itself, the bag a boxer works on, and the little punching bag at the back of your throat.
TEARDROP-SHAPED THINGS
TEARDROP-SHAPED THINGS
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: four drinks that are each one letter off: take brandy, gin, rum and whiskey, and change only the last letter of each one - a film legend, a job, a jog and a cat's feeler walk out.