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Board words
DEN, LOOSE, GIMME, LAX, BURROW, MIA, WARREN, PLATOON, TROUPER, WALL STREET, EASY, JFK, SLACK, NIXON, LODGE, QUEEN.
Hints by color
- Yellow: Words meaning not very strict.
- Green: Places where furry creatures live.
- Blue: Films by the director behind Born on the Fourth of July.
- Purple: Second words in titles of popular ABBA hits.
Spoilers below this line: category names and answers follow.
Answers for Connections #896
Yellow — Lenient
EASY, LAX, LOOSE, SLACK
Green — Animal Homes
BURROW, DEN, LODGE, WARREN
Blue — Oliver Stone Movies
JFK, NIXON, PLATOON, WALL STREET
Purple — Second Words in Titles of ABBA Hits
GIMME, MIA, QUEEN, TROUPER
How the tricky words fit
WARREN may suggest a presidential name, especially beside JFK and NIXON, but it belongs with animal homes: a warren is a network of burrows. The blue group consists of movie titles: JFK, Nixon, Platoon, and Wall Street.
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The purple group takes the second word from four ABBA song titles: “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!,” “Mamma Mia,” “Dancing Queen,” and “Super Trouper.” GIMME is the spelling used in the answer guides that agree on the board; one guide printed it as “GIMMIE” in an answer listing.
JFK, LAX, MIA, and DEN can also look like airport codes, but they do not form a set here: JFK belongs with the Oliver Stone films, while LAX is a leniency synonym, MIA is an ABBA title word, and DEN is an animal home. The puzzle’s date, number, categories, and solutions agree across answer guides from Forbes, Parade, and TechRadar. These are archival answers for November 23, 2025, rather than a claim about a current daily puzzle.
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