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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SLUG: Everyone calls slugs slow, but maybe they're just living life at the perfect pace while we're all rushing nowhere.
They all lack limbs or have very short ones
These animals glide smoothly along surfaces
Slimy animals
CANAL: Humans built canals to control water, but water just saw it as humans building it a fancy new path to follow.
These things emit light without heat
Natural and artificial sources of cold light
Things that luminesce
SALAMANDER: Salamanders can regrow limbs while we can't even fix a broken phone screen. Evolution has some explaining to do.
Common sights in Netherlands
Traditional Dutch infrastructure and icons
Dutch symbols
EEL: Eels can generate electricity naturally, while we're still arguing about power plants. Talk about being ahead of the curve.
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”