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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CAR: You think you own your car, but your car owns 5 years of your monthly salary.
Outdoor spaces with grass
Areas maintained for recreation or aesthetics
Grassy area
JAW: Your jaw does all the talking, but never gets to say what it really wants.
Ways to refer to or reach something
Information used to locate or identify
Deal with
NATURAL: Everything natural is trying to be artificial these days, and everything artificial is trying to look natural.
Words that can be paired with 'joint'
These relate to motion or connection
Movies with āsā removed
LAWN: You don't mow the lawn, the lawn mows away your weekend.
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 āsā removed
Hint: ___ law