A Puzzle Built on MisdirectionAccording to coverage of Saturday's grid, puzzle 1,154 featured heavy misdirection, with several words appearing at first glance to fit into unrelated groupings before the actual connections became clear. NYT testers rated the puzzle 2.5 out of 5 in difficulty, placing it in the medium range. The yellow group's hint pointed toward old-fashioned, exclamatory expressions used to show excitement, the kind of enthusiastic outburst you might associate with 1950s-era enthusiasm rather than modern conversation. The purple group's hint indicated that each word completes a common phrase beginning with the word "Safety." The purple group, titled Safety ___, connected BELT, GOGGLES, PIN and RAZOR, four words that each complete a common compound term when paired with "safety": safety belt, safety goggles, safety pin and safety razor.