Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 17, 2024 (Puzzle #555)

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If you feel like you are losing your nerves in today’s puzzle, you might need to find a few hints to help you out. This is a way to build up your confidence without getting the full spoilers. However, for those that do just want an answer to help kickstart the rest of the puzzle, we have those as well. We have whatever you need to get you to the end of the puzzle without losing too much patience.

If you want to try a different kind of puzzle, the NYT’s puzzle is a sure way to stay in the word-based puzzle world without feeling like there’s too much crossover. Instead of making connections between groups, you will be attempting to string words together by building them around the sides of a box. While it looks complicated and a little overwhelming at first, you will soon get the rhythm for it as you bounce from side to side without any problems whatsoever.

On today’s puzzle, the main root of frustration will likely be the fact that all of the words are the same kind of word — that being nouns — and there is not that much difference between them. There is also a fair amount of overlap in the words, making it easy to make incorrect guesses. To help you avoid those incorrect guesses, a few hints should help you get what the puzzle is trying to accomplish without looking at the answers.

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 those hints are not enough for you, there are still many more to come. The first of which is the category names, before we start spoiling answers.

INTREPIDITY

ROAD

KINDS OF PAPER

KINDS OF TENNIS COURTS

INTREPIDITY

GRIT

HEART

NERVE

PLUCK

This category is all about resolve and how much you may have of it. There is a lot of potential in these words. You can have the HEART for something, you can find the GRIT to keep going when things feel difficult, you have the NERVE to stand up for something, or the PLUCK to stay the course. There are