Today's puzzle asks you to cross your Ts with possessive pronouns.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 1 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,055. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,054, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Pour
- Wax
- Ale
- Hive
- Crest
- Honey
- Mix
- Comb
- Buff
- Wight
- Wattle
- Citrine
- Shine
- Beak
- Amber
- Polish
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Make glossy
- 🟩 Green: Transluscent golden things
- 🟦 Blue: Features of a bird's head
- 🟪 Purple: Numbers with first letter changed
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on May 1 for puzzle #1,055 are harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Make glossy: Buff, polish, shine, wax
- 🟩 Transluscent golden things: Ale, amber, citrine, honey
- 🟦 Features of a bird's head: Beak, comb, crest, wattle
- 🟪 Numbers with first letter changed: Hive, mix, pour, wight
With today's puzzle, I immediately focused on citrine, where I was thinking of its yellowish color. That's how I got to ale, amber, and honey. I found myself very distracted by the spelling of transluscent and the extra 's.'
That is a typo, right? I'm not crazy? (Let's not talk about my own strange one from yesterday).
Moving on with green gone, I took the bird parts of beak, comb, crest and wattle, which I would normally peg as a green set.
With the remaining 8 I grabbed hive, mix, pour and wight without connecting the number clue. Which is fine.
That left buff, polish, shine and wax as the yellow set.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Unnerve: Alarm, disturb, shake, shock
- 🟩 Remove, as an item from a list, with "off": Check, cross, mark, tick
- 🟦 What "T" might stand for: Tesla, time, true, tyrannosaurus
- 🟪 Homophones of possessive adjectives: Hour, hur, there, yore
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,054, which had a difficulty rating of 1.3 out of 5.
I felt unnecessarily clever when I saw Hur as "her" which led to hour as "our", there "their" and yore "your." And then it fell apart a bit.
I legitimately thought the check set was the yellow group, so I threw in alarm, distrub, shake and shock because I was not making the T connection. Quelle surprise when it was yellow.
In a bit of pique, I put in check, cross, mark and tick net.
And my cleverness was put through the wash when the final four came through as T stands in with tesla, time, true and tyrannosaurus. Time and true made sense; it took an embarrassingly long time for T-Rex to click and the T of the Tesla logo. Ah well.
