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The answers to today's Connections, game #409, are…

The NYT's insistence on throwing misdirection into every Connections puzzle can grate a little. Today is a prime example, because I lost two guesses to what easily could or maybe should have been answers, but weren't. And in one case, I think the non answer was a better one than the actual solution.

My problems began with the baby animals group, which ended up being the blue one. I played CUB, CALF, KID and FAWN – because obviously they are all baby animals – but that was wrong. So I looked elsewhere and realized that KID could also go with TEASE and RIB, oh and RAZZ kind of fit, so I tried that and solved the yellow 'joke around

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