Get NYT Connections Hints for December 2, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #540, including word connections and hidden categories.
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TRUMPET: A trumpet thinks it's announcing important things, but really it's just a metal tube having an identity crisis and desperately seeking attention through noise.
When you want to make something known officially
Ways to announce or proclaim something important
Announce
HAIR: Hair is actually attempting a slow escape from your head, one strand at a time, but we keep calling it 'natural shedding' to avoid confronting the truth.
Activities requiring skilled hand-eye coordination
Hitting or striking is involved in each
Things involving mallets
POLO PLAYER: Polo players think they're being elite, but the horses are just humoring them while discussing how humans invented a game just to look important on horseback.
Common symbols or identifiers in fashion and sports
Recognizable logos or emblems
Icon embroidered on a polo shirt
VIDEO: Videos think they're preserving memories, but they're really just enabling humans to spend hours watching other people living life instead of living their own.
They can be real or artificial, physical or digital
Each can be cut, styled, or edited
___ clip
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Hint: Announce
Hint: Things involving mallets
Hint: Icon embroidered on a polo shirt
Hint: ___ clip