Do you want hints?

I avoid 95 as much as possible and I’m a lot older than your daughter, with decades of driving experience. Between the huge trucks who don’t obey the law, never-ending daytime construction, and the speeding cars, it’s not safe for anyone. Thanks for taking this on.

Yum

They claim not - but both are from the pacific northwest so I wonder…

I initially thought the purple cat was something like “words that sound like they start with a letter” - so EFFORT but then i realized. I stand by APPLE as a legit tree more so than YEW which I think of as a bush - but I recovered.

Was it EFFORT, slightly missing the correct purple category? And who among us did not choose APPLE? LOL

Connections
Puzzle #785
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟦🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟦🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Aw thank you! I’m trying to claw my way back LOL - haven’t missed a puzzle but just missed writing about them. Nice to know someone reads!

Thanks Aaron. I do them sometimes but too often stare at the blank grid in frustration. I’ll knock off cryptic-lite Puns & Anagrams as a palette cleanser but have to be in the right offbeat frame of mind for cryptics.