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Progressive hints
- Yellow: TAKE ON, AS A RESPONSIBILITY
- Green: CORNERS
- Blue: ASSOCIATED WITH POPEYE
- Purple: _____ SHEET
NYT Connections #589 answers
The New York Times Connections puzzle for Monday, January 20, 2025, is puzzle #589. Its 16 tiles divide into four groups of four.
Yellow: Take on, as a responsibility
ASSUME, BEAR, HANDLE, SHOULDER
Each word can describe accepting or carrying a duty: you assume, bear, handle or shoulder a responsibility.
Green: Corners
ANGLE, BEND, CROOK, ELBOW
These can all refer to a corner or a turning point. An angle and bend are direct descriptions; a crook and an elbow can describe a sharp turn.
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Blue: Associated with Popeye
ANCHOR, FOREARM, PIPE, SPINACH
The group combines Popeye’s sailor imagery and visual trademarks. He is commonly shown with an anchor motif, a pipe and prominent forearms, while spinach is his signature source of strength.
Purple: ___ sheet
BALANCE, CHEAT, COOKIE, FITTED
Complete the familiar phrases balance sheet, cheat sheet, cookie sheet and fitted sheet.
The complete word grid
Before grouping the tiles, the board showed:
- ASSUME
- BEAR
- HANDLE
- SHOULDER
- ANGLE
- BEND
- CROOK
- ELBOW
- ANCHOR
- FOREARM
- PIPE
- SPINACH
- BALANCE
- CHEAT
- COOKIE
- FITTED
How this Connections puzzle works
Connections is a daily New York Times category-matching game. Players sort 16 words into four groups of four. The categories use four difficulty colors—yellow, green, blue and purple—and misleading overlaps or wordplay can make an apparent group look plausible even when it is not the intended one.
For this edition, the most literal entries are the responsibility and corners groups. The Popeye category depends on association rather than a single word pattern, while the final group is solved by completing compounds ending in “sheet.”
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