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Here’s a larger hint:Check your currencies for some fish before bidding in an auction for cup.

New York Times Connections puzzle December 14 2024

Today’s Connections answers

So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #552?

Welcome to Saturday, and we’re back in the 3 ratings for puzzles.

So, I had fish knocked out immediately with fluke, mullet, sole and tang.

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I had an idea of what I thought purple was with Solo and Diva after finding the other two.

I didn’t really believe that the auction words were actually a group but did it as a lark.

Lo and behold, the green category was filled.

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I found today’s 1.5 rated puzzle to be surprisingly easier than Wednesday’s 1 rating.

Perhaps, I consume too many sodas but seeing Crush and Squirt was an immediate soda connection for me.

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Sprite could be grouped with Pixie but after you snag soda it’s an obvious one.

Starry is less obvious but used to be called Sierra Mist (Pepsi’s version of Sprite).

Chagrined, I nabbed the green words to wrap that up.

A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

I had skipped some of these earlier looking for bands because of phish before seeing the homophone link.

NYT Strands on a cellphone

A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

The cover of the upcoming Star Wars: Outlaws video game

Fire TV interface on the Fire TV Stick 4K (2nd gen)

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