Get NYT Connections Hints for January 1, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #570, including word connections and hidden categories.
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WATERFALL: Water spends its whole life trying to reach the bottom, only to be lifted up again. It's nature's most dramatic way of saying 'back to square one'.
They all lack limbs or have very short ones
These animals glide smoothly along surfaces
Slimy animals
RAINDROP: Each raindrop thinks it's falling, but really it's just returning home. Makes you wonder if our failures are just cosmic homecomings.
These things emit light without heat
Natural and artificial sources of cold light
Things that luminesce
RADIUM: Radium glows without charging, while we need coffee just to function. Who's really the advanced species here?
Common sights in Netherlands
Traditional Dutch infrastructure and icons
Dutch symbols
AURORA: The aurora puts on the greatest light show in the world, and never charges admission. Meanwhile, we pay for LED screens.
Gravity plays a key role with these
These all describe descending actions or phenomena
Ending with synonyms for “plunge”
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Hint: Slimy animals
Hint: Things that luminesce
Hint: Dutch symbols
Hint: Ending with synonyms for “plunge”