April 25 NYT Connections: Full Solutions for Puzzle No. 1049

This article provides hints and the complete solutions for today’s NYT Connections puzzle (April 25, 2026, No. 1049). The four groups and answers are: Yellow group (body coverings): enamel, hair, nail, skin; Green group (masses in idioms): crowd, haystack, million, ocean; Blue group (old-timey slang for law enforcement): copper, dick, flatfoot, gumshoe; Purple group (starts with synonyms for 'throw'): cast iron, Chuck E. Cheese, hurly burly, pitchfork. It also mentions the Times’ Connections Bot and progress-tracking features for registered users, plus notes on some of the toughest past Connections puzzles.