Connections #552 Answers
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #552 for Saturday, December 14, 2024. The 16 words split into four groups by colour — yellow is easiest, purple the trickiest. The group themes are listed first as hints, then every group is revealed below. Looking for the latest puzzle? See today's Connections.
Hints — the four group themes
- Yellow (easiest): fish
- Green: words in an auction-ending phrase
- Blue: global currencies
- Purple (hardest): words before “cup”
Answers
FISH
FLUKE, MULLET, SOLE, TANG
WORDS IN AN AUCTION-ENDING PHRASE
GOING, ONCE, SOLD, TWICE
GLOBAL CURRENCIES
POUND, REAL, SOL, YUAN
WORDS BEFORE “CUP”
BUTTER, DIVA, SOLO, WORLD
Previous Connections answers
- #551 — fantasy creatures, email folders, citrus sodas, animal homophones
- #550 — things that sound like "t", objects with teeth, mild oaths, parts of a river
- #549 — utopia, things you shake, proper noun portmanteaux, ending in synonyms for “friend”
- #548 — give a title to, parts of a flight, feel around (for), countries minus first letter
- #547 — deliberation, used in starting a fire, used to view a biological sample, words after “x”
- #546 — punch, cram, companies named after animals, homophones of music genres
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