Cracking Today’s NYT Connections: Aug. 31, 2026 Answers Revealed

The article provides hints and the completed NYT Connections puzzle for Aug. 31, 2026. Four groups are revealed: Yellow group (Things that come in tubes) with lipstick, poster, tennis balls, toothpaste; Green group (Warnings on a shipping box) with fragile, heavy, perishable, this side up; Blue group (Historical sovereign titles) with caliph, khan, patriarch, shogun; Purple group (____ bowl) with dust, poke, salad, super. The piece includes the hints, the group answers, and context about the puzzle, authored by Gael Cooper.