Get NYT Connections Hints for January 4, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #573, including word connections and hidden categories.
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CLOCK: You think you're watching the clock? The clock has been watching generations of your family for centuries.
Actions that make something compact or compressed
Ways to transform something flat into a tight shape
Crush into a compact shape
TICK: Every tick you hear is actually time laughing at your plans.
Ways to fasten or secure things together
Quick connecting actions with a satisfying click
Fasteners
STRIKE: You strike matches to make light, but maybe darkness just lets you borrow some visibility.
Simple symbols used to indicate status
Basic marks for yes/no or complete/incomplete
Mark as completed
BRANCH: You see branches reaching for the sky, but really they're just arms trying to push the earth away.
Elements that appear in surrealist artwork
Objects often depicted in distorted ways in art
Depicted in dalí’s “the persistence of memory”
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Hint: Crush into a compact shape
Hint: Fasteners
Hint: Mark as completed
Hint: Depicted in dalí’s “the persistence of memory”