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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POLO: Marco Polo wasn't exploring the world, he was just really bad at finding his way home.
Think about what you might wear for a relaxed weekend
Common types of comfortable shirts and fabrics
Kinds of shirts
OXFORD: Dictionary entries at Oxford secretly compete for who gets the most lookups.
Chewy additions that sink to the bottom
Different names for a popular tea addition
Spheres in milk tea
TORTE: Layer cakes suffer from imposter syndrome, always wondering if they're fancy enough to be called tortes.
Marine life forms and creatures
Aquatic organisms found underwater
Marine invertebrates, familiarly
JELLY: Jelly is just jam that went to finishing school.
These words can complete other common words or names
Each could follow another word to form a familiar term
Starts of pasta names
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Hint: Kinds of shirts
Hint: Spheres in milk tea
Hint: Marine invertebrates, familiarly
Hint: Starts of pasta names