Get NYT Connections Hints for March 5, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #633, including word connections and hidden categories.
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ONION: Onions make humans cry. Perhaps they're just getting revenge for all the times we've chopped them up.
Where does something end and something else begin?
These describe peripheral areas or boundaries
Periphery
PICKLE: You're not in a pickle, the pickle is in you - literally, if you ate one.
These can all be done to nails
Tools and actions for maintenance and grooming
Things people do to fingernails
DODGE: While you're dodging life's problems, life is probably dodging your solutions.
Things that might make you emotional or uncomfortable
Each can cause a strong physical or emotional reaction
What might bring tears to your eyes
BORDER: Borders don't divide places, they divide our imagination of places.
These words have both literal and slang uses
Each can describe a tricky situation or movement
___ball recreational sports
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Hint: Periphery
Hint: Things people do to fingernails
Hint: What might bring tears to your eyes
Hint: ___ball recreational sports