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1.Today’s hints

2.Today’s answer

3.Yesterday’s answer

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Today’s Connections answers

So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #522?

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Signature stuck out so we wrapped it up.

Thus, I wrapped up today’s puzzle with drain, empty, exhaust and sap for depleting words.

Yesterday’s Connections answers

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I tried a sauces category with tartar, mustard, Worcestershire, and lemon.

So we moved on to building add-ons because I saw wing and annex.

Extension and addition were quick finds from there.

NYT Strands on a cellphone

I returned to mustard as I saw canary and lemon for a yellow things in the yellow category grouping.

My son loves Minions so that, for me, was a quick snag.

After that I got stuck.

A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

I had most of the blue group with cavity, plaque and tartar.

Calculus is apparently a form of calcified tartar.

Which leaves the purple category of “Words that seem longer written than spoken.”

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We had Colonel, Pharaoh, Wednesday and Worcestershire.

I disagree with the Connections crew on the title here, it feels like a real stretch.

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Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World

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