New Delhi, July 12 -- The NYT Connections puzzle for Sunday, July 12, 2026, is #1127. All four group answers are below.

Three spoiler-free hints come first for solvers still working through the board.

Hint 1: Two of today's four categories connect to fruit - but in completely different ways. Getting them untangled early is the key to unlocking the whole puzzle.

Hint 2: One group contains only the names of fruit-flavored candy brands sold in movie theaters and corner stores. Think small, brightly packaged, hard.

Hint 3: The purple group has nothing to do with fruit or grammar. Each entry is the opening three letters of a U.S. state capital city. The cities are all well-known; the fragments are designed to look like ordinary words.

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