NYT Connections - some more tenuous than others

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New thread to vent our frustration

By the skin of my teeth!

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Puzzle #291
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I had to Google hints for that one. Got green and yellow quite quickly and had suspicions about the purple line but was stumped on the others.

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Puzzle #291
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Puzzle #291
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fell for the red herring in the blues.

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Puzzle #291
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Hurrah!
I didn’t get it yesterday.

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Puzzle #291
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Puzzle #291
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One of the purples was bizarre.

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Puzzle #291
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Thread title highly appropriate for that purple group.

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Puzzle #291
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Puzzle #291
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well, hints were needed today!

Thankfully I got the purples by elimination. I'll just leave this picture here...

https://cdn.thewirecutter.com/wp-content/media/2021/07/spatulas-2048px-15.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75&width=980&dpr=2

I was thinking more like a wooden one.

What we call fish slice is called a spatula in the US.

Connections is where my marrying a Yank all those years ago paid off. He is long gone, the added vocabulary remains.

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Puzzle #292
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Not sure which puzzle this is as I started it at 11.58 on Thursday but finished just after midnight . It seems to be the same puzzle you've all done on Thursday but I've got a different number .

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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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Dogs dinner today! Irony of only getting one group - purple!

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Puzzle #292
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Puzzle #292
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I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this now!