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The answers to today's Connections, game #431, are…

Misdirection is a constant threat in Connections, which is one of the reasons why I always shuffle the answers as soon as I fire up the game; the NYT tends to put words next to each other at the start to make it look like they go together, when they don't.

Today, I guessed MATE, BUD, PAL, PARTNER as a group and was pretty shocked when they didn't form one answer. But as it happens, MATE and PARTNER were instead part of the 'Other half' group (with COMPLEMENT and MATCH), while BUD went in 'Beers' and PAL in the final 'Words after «Pay»' group.

Still, you get to make three mistakes in Connections (the fourth triggers a loss),

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