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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PARK: While humans go to parks to relax, parks secretly gather humans to feed their lonely benches and swings.
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
FIELD: Fields don't grow crops for humans; humans grow humans for fields.
Words that can be paired with 'joint'
These relate to motion or connection
Movies with βsβ removed
HANDLE: You think you're handling life, but life is handling you.
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