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Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #588.

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Today’s Connections answers

So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #588?

The New York Times Connections puzzle for January 19, 2025

That only left today’s easiest category with Kitty, Pool, Pot, and Purse.

Yesterday’s Connections answers

Reading this in a later time zone?

Yesterday, I had some Connections blinders on.

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I saw Thorn, Spur and Tide and was immediately thinking sports team.

I could not find that fourth team though but it stuck in my craw the whole way through.

Where I did start was with album, artist, label and track as things on a record.

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Even with the popularity of vinyl I can see why this was a blue category.

So, drive, impulse, itch and urge.

I briefly considered spur but it wasn’t quite right.

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Drive isn’t either but it fits better.

What got me around it was putting corner, page and tables together because I was thinking books.

I took a strike throwing spine in.

A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

The one away clue got me to finally wake up and look at the board.

Finally saw sticker, thorn and spur.

I assumed the sticking words were supposed to be the easier of the two groupings.

The cover of the upcoming Star Wars: Outlaws video game

Then we wrapped it up with barbs; spine, spur, sticker and thorn.

Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo Switch 2 console in handheld mode on a blue background

NYT Strands on a cellphone

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Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World

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