NYT Connections II

The Coffee Shop
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edited professionally for 20 years, never saw a dagger for a citation, may be specialist

Connections
Puzzle #731
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Never heard of parens. I assumed it was another category of words missing letters.

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Connections
Puzzle #731
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

What cereal does a rooster sell?

(parens)

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short for parentheses (as in open parens close parens). Not a great clue.

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Connections
Puzzle #731
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Purple was a bit of a guess with dagger. For blue, elves had ben second guessing, I think they’re Snap, Crackle, and Pop from Rice Krispies.

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Connections
Puzzle #731
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::purple_square::purple_square:

Argh!

Couldn’t get the bent things straightened out.

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Connections
Puzzle #731
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #731
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

must mean † . Unicode calls it Dagger. OED uses it to indicate an obsolete word

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huh! could alternate as an RIP cross in that case

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Connections
Puzzle #731
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::blue_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

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Apparently supposed to be used for a second citation after an asterisk was used for the first citation.

Also “parens” is a little bogus since it’s kind of a slang shortening of parentheses.

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blue is cute

Connections
Puzzle #732
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #732
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #732
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #732
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square: Took me some time to make the wrestling connection to the other three. I was wondering what the ing on every word was about. It was only to pull it away on the purple line.

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Connections
Puzzle #732
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::purple_square::blue_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #732
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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Connections
Puzzle #732
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:

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sucked into eye parts or sucked into ice cream? wrong choice

was never getting blue

Connections
Puzzle #733
:blue_square::yellow_square::purple_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:purple_square::purple_square::purple_square::purple_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:blue_square::blue_square::blue_square::blue_square: