Connections hints, clues and answers on Sunday, January 5 2025

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Have you been playing Connections, the super fun word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. Think what makes a beat in music but the word has other meanings.

2. Money.

3. How you’d describe a town with not much going on.

4. Think remote.

The answers are below this photo:

1. Words before “drum”

2. Earn

3. Hardly bustling

4. Remote control functions