Get NYT Connections Hints for October 17, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #494, including word connections and hidden categories.
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YARD: People spend their weekends maintaining their yards, but yards spend their whole existence maintaining people's illusions of control.
Outdoor spaces with grass
Areas maintained for recreation or aesthetics
Grassy area
LEMON: When life gives you lemons, remember the lemons didn't ask to be made into lemonade.
Ways to refer to or reach something
Information used to locate or identify
Deal with
SWINGER: The playground swing isn't moving back and forth - it's the Earth rotating beneath it.
Words that can be paired with 'joint'
These relate to motion or connection
Movies with βsβ removed
GOODFELLA: Being a good fellow is easy, but being a fellow who's too good to be true is an art.
Each could be described as 'bad' or 'defective'
These suggest something inherent or original
___ law
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Hint: Grassy area
Hint: Deal with
Hint: Movies with βsβ removed
Hint: ___ law