Get NYT Connections Hints for December 31, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #569, including word connections and hidden categories.
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DROP: Gravity doesn't make things drop, things choose to leave because they're tired of being held up to your standards.
Think about actions that happen in an instant
These can all be used as verbs meaning to move rapidly
Move quickly
NAMES: We give names to everything, but perhaps everything already had names before we arrived, we just couldn't understand them.
Think about powerful sensations or actions
Many of these appear in sports contexts
Fun time
FLY: Birds don't fly because they have wings, they have wings because they never accepted the ground's gravity of the situation.
Common words used to address or direct
Basic elements in letter-writing and correspondence
Words before an addressee
TO: Everyone's going to somewhere, but has anyone asked if somewhere wants them to come?
Think about marketing and product terminology
Each can modify or qualify other nouns
Name ___
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Hint: Move quickly
Hint: Fun time
Hint: Words before an addressee
Hint: Name ___