New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The NYT Connections answers today for Tuesday, August 18, 2026 sort puzzle #1164 into movie premiere fixtures, things abbreviated to P.J., orange things, and things you could call gritty.

If you want to work it out yourself, the hints come first and the full solution follows.

NYT Connections Hints Today, August 18, 2026 (Puzzle #1164)

Yellow is a place, or rather the furniture of a place. Picture arriving somewhere you were photographed on the way in.

Green is not about meaning at all. Say the initials out loud.

Blue is a colour category, and it is the one most likely to swallow a word that does not belong to it.

Purple is a single adjective. Three of its members earn it honestly and one of them is literally na...