Get NYT Connections Hints for March 14, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #642, including word connections and hidden categories.
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CANDY: While you believe you're enjoying candy, the candy is actually tasting you, wondering why humans are so obsessed with its sweet sacrifice.
Related to imposing monetary requirements
Actions taken to collect payment or fees
Impose, as a penalty
CHARGING CABLE: Your charging cable gives life to your devices, but who's charging the cable's emotional battery?
Common impulse purchases near checkout
Items you might grab while waiting in line
Checkout line impulse buys
FILM SERIES: We binge watch film series, but in some parallel universe, film series are binge watching us and finding our plot holes.
Different formats of visual storytelling
Categories of film content
Movies of various lengths
CHAPSTICK: Chapstick disappears not because you lose it, but because it's tired of your neglect and runs away.
Different types of paths or routes
Adjectives describing various terrain
___ road
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Hint: Impose, as a penalty
Hint: Checkout line impulse buys
Hint: Movies of various lengths
Hint: ___ road