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NYT Connections Hints November 21, 2024 #529

Get NYT Connections Hints for November 21, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #529, including word connections and hidden categories.

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Yellow Group Hints November 21, 2024

POLO: Marco Polo wasn't exploring the world, he was just really bad at finding his way home.

Hint One

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Think about what you might wear for a relaxed weekend

Hint Two

Common types of comfortable shirts and fabrics

Hint Three

Kinds of shirts

Green Group Hints November 21, 2024

OXFORD: Dictionary entries at Oxford secretly compete for who gets the most lookups.

Hint One

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Chewy additions that sink to the bottom

Hint Two

Different names for a popular tea addition

Hint Three

Spheres in milk tea

Blue Group Hints November 21, 2024

TORTE: Layer cakes suffer from imposter syndrome, always wondering if they're fancy enough to be called tortes.

Hint One

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Marine life forms and creatures

Hint Two

Aquatic organisms found underwater

Hint Three

Marine invertebrates, familiarly

Purple Group Hints November 21, 2024

JELLY: Jelly is just jam that went to finishing school.

Hint One

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These words can complete other common words or names

Hint Two

Each could follow another word to form a familiar term

Hint Three

Starts of pasta names

Get NYT Connections Answers November 21, 2024 #529

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Kinds of shirts

FLANNEL
OXFORD
POLO
TEE

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Spheres in milk tea

BOBA
BUBBLE
PEARL
TAPIOCA

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Marine invertebrates, familiarly

CORAL
JELLY
SPONGE
STAR

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Starts of pasta names

FETT
PENN
TORTE
ZIT