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Monday, April 1, 2024

Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — April 1, 2024

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One word per groupTheme name + one word per category
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Word grid

All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.

✈️
🌧️
🍞
🐑
🐝
👁️
👽
🥓
🥬
🧀
🧛
🧠
🪚
🫖
😱
🚂
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Themes

The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.

FOOD SLANG FOR MONEYStraightforward
WORDS THAT RHYMEModerate
HORROR MOVIESTricky
LETTER HOMOPHONESDevious
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One word per group

Theme name plus one word from each category.

FOOD SLANG FOR MONEYStraightforward
THESE FOODS ARE ALSO STREET TERMS FOR CASH+ 3 more…
WORDS THAT RHYMEModerate
SAY THESE EMOJIS OUT LOUD — THEY ALL SOUND ALIKE+ 3 more…
HORROR MOVIESTricky
EACH EMOJI REPRESENTS A FAMOUS HORROR FILM+ 3 more…
LETTER HOMOPHONESDevious
EACH IMAGE SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE A LETTER OF THE ALPHABET+ 3 more…
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Full solution
FOOD SLANG FOR MONEYStraightforward
🥓,🍞,🥬,🧀

Bacon, bread, lettuce, and cheddar are all slang terms for money

WORDS THAT RHYMEModerate
🧠,✈️,🌧️,🚂

Brain (BRAIN), plane (PLANE), rain (RAIN), and train (TRAIN) all rhyme with each other

HORROR MOVIESTricky
👽,🧛,🪚,😱

Alien (👽), Dracula/Interview with the Vampire (🧛), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (🪚), and Scream (😱) are all classic horror movies

LETTER HOMOPHONESDevious
🐝,🐑,👁️,🫖

Bee = B, sheep = P, eye = I, teapot = T — each is a homophone of a single alphabet letter

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