Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 10, 2024 (Puzzle #548)

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If you feel like you are not cruising but fumbling today’s puzzle, you might need a bit of a helping hand. There are a fair number of different things going on today,with a lot of different words thrown out that have many meanings. The context always matters but today it likely matters even more. To help you figure out what context is the right one, you should check out these tips and tricks.

If you want to try a new type of puzzle, the NYT puzzle is a challenging but fun one to try. You get as many guesses as you need, unlike in, so things do not feel as desperate as you continue to make guesses. In fact, you will need to make several guesses in order to even figure out if you are in the right ballpark. You can continue to put the right pieces together until you get the correct answer or the day ends.

If things don’t look to be going well on today’s puzzle, we have the right clues to make things go a little better. You will want to pay close attention to some of the words, as you can glean the right context from some of the other words in the puzzle if you can match them up. There is one fake context that seems quite obvious when you first start the puzzle, but you will want to be careful not to fall for that trick and instead get the puzzle finished well.

This tricky little five by five crossword isn't always as easy as it looks; here are a couple easy tips and tricks to beat your friends' times!

If you still are not sure about what words are in what category, you can keep scrolling through the spoilers to find out more.

GIVE A TITLE TO

PARTS OF A FLIGHT

FEEL AROUND (FOR)

COUNTRIES MINUS FIRST LETTER

GIVE A TITLE TO

CALL

DUB

LABEL

NAME

This one tried to slip by me as I focused on other categories first. However, once I did notice it it became a little easier. If you CALL something, you are using its NAME to differentiate it from others like it. DUB and LABEL are the same kind of words, just with different meanings. Luckily, today the easy category did