NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | Aug 23, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we're finding four groups of four Titan fan Fawn wow say that 10 times fast check finish monitor buff boa screen cream bask terminal coret display gloves okay I won't fall into the Trap like last time of only thinking Bo was a snake cuz Bo is also that fluffy thing that's like long and thin that goes around your neck or whatever and I feel like that could go with corset and gloves kind of like outfit thing you got your coret you got your gloves you got your boa like I don't know I'm thinking 1920s style dress um what else goes with that I mean Tai not really I don't think a tide goes with a corset gloves in boa the only I can think of as Fawn is something I don't know which is really unfortunate cuz I finally know what Bo is all right it might be Fawn but I'm not going to use a guess on that right now we'll just find something else to do um monitor feels like it's got two options here like it can be the monitor for your computer I'm pointing at my monitor like you can see it um or you can be monitoring something right but display and monitor feel like we're going for like terminal and screen like just your screen right yeah display how do I not use these words I don't know but you know what I mean visual interface there we go okay um fan I wonder if a fan goes with that outfit like you're holding the fan and I don't know it feels like it might um one of those decorative fans check tan cream I'm just going to start saying words and nothing else I guess that's the only thing I do cream so like a cream like like a like a lotion or like on on um like on a cake ice blank um none of those seem to really work with anything else um finish you can finish something you can like tie it up like you're you're tying a bow right on it right you're you're finishing it um but even so I don't know that that meanss anything um you can bask in the Sun and you can tan again I don't know what else would go with that buff like you're strong or you're you're a fan oh yeah yeah if you're a buff of something you're a fan like um what else means that you enjoy something thoroughly um you can fawn over it maybe Basque cuz I don't know what else would be that I don't think Czech would be it finish no Tai no I'm going to go with Basque it feels wrong but it was wrong in fact we weren't even one away oh no so that was a red herring is thing um I am going to try gloves corset boa and something what I want to do with was it Fawn or was it I thought I saw something else that might go with that the fan Maybe I'm going to try the fan yes burles Square okay so Fawn is a baby deer just thought of that what would that have to do with anything though I don't know we weren't okay we weren't one away oh what I included fan but we weren't one away when I did buff Fawn and Basque and fan that was not one away so I still can't put all three of these together that's the information I have I don't know what to do with this it's the blue and purple these are a bit out there huh let me think about the word check right there's check like you can write a check like a bank check right the British spell that very differently um check like a check mark or a checkbox you can um like if you check someone in a sport like you're you're bodying them [Music] uh I don't know what else check would mean they've done word play stuff like it could be short for Checkers the game H if you check something off you finished it you check it you finish it you tie it and I've got to use one of Bas buffer Fawn at least if I use these three I'd have to use one of those three that's the problem I know that bask buff and fawn don't go together I don't see how Fawn buff or bask means to finish something the only thing I the only definition I can think of Basque is like you're basking in the sun you're you're laying out in it you're you're absorbing it I don't know exactly what Basque means I've only really heard it in that sentence and so sort of has an implied meaning to me um tan is a mathematical operation for tangent don't see why it would be that I feel like we tan and cream be next to each other me think of like like tanning cream and then I don't know what else things that go on your skin tan and cream um cream could also be like the the edible cream right or just like the milk product cream something you might put in your coffee I don't know I'm trying to think about alternatives for all these can't you fawn over something is that how it's spelled when you fawn over something like you're like cuon over a child right you you're giving them excess love um other than that it's a baby deer I haven't really thought about tie very much so tie could be the thing you wear like a tie around your neck it could be like a tie game like no one wins um okay I was thinking about check so check also is in chess right you can check the the king and chess also check and poker is to not BET right H do any of those work I don't know I think what I have to do is try to lock in something and and try to like get information out of that I already know that these three don't go together one of them one of them has to be pulled out at least um so why don't I do check finish tie and bask I don't know I'm picking one and my expectation is this might be one away if it's one away I actually win because it has to go with for Fawn in that case so let's try that oh or it could just be right language homophones oh Basque what language is Basque I've heard of that language briefly I don't know who speaks it we'll look that up Czech as in like like uh the Czech Republic Chia they speak Czech there Finnish like from Finland and Thai like from Thailand wow okay that was lucky that I did that cuz I was I was not thinking that's the reason they went together all right let's see if I can figure this out then for Redemption tan cream Fawn and buff I don't know I feel like tan and cream might be colors that's all I've got all right I'm I'm out of brain juice for this game what is it beige Shades okay they're all colors not just that they're all beige color okay no wonder I couldn't figure this out purple was very very purpling and then blue was just like I don't know I don't know four Shades beige I would just call them all beige I guess I know tan kind of know cream I don't even know if I consider cream to be a beige shade to be honest I consider that to be a white shade anyway uh let's look up bask because I'm curious all right Basque is the only surviving paleo European language spoken in Europe predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today Basque is spoken by the bases and other residents of The Basque Country a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of Northern Spain and Western France Basque is classified as a language isolate the basks are indigenous to and primarily inhabit The Basque Country it's spoken by 86,000 bases in all all territories interesting let's look at a map all right I can't get Google to show a a good map of this it's got so many mountains around it but this this R dotted red line here this is Basque country and you can see that it's mostly in Spain it's an autonomous region of Spain that's in the northern end um and then it it dips apparently it's supposed to dip into France but it definitely borders France at the very least interesting okay well we learned something today I did not I mean I'd heard of them but I didn't know those specifics about it about their language or their country so that's interesting how' you do let's do the mini crossw Mini Crossword word for Friday August 23rd let's go good blank bad blank classic routine good cop bad cop pick up on as a sound uh to hear I don't know if that works pick up on as a vibe to feel I'm not sure actress Anna of Ugly Betty I'm not sure not as much let's get the Downs homophone of five across uhoh fertile area in a desert as an oasis so here is correct I think Biden's title informally pre I've heard podus um homophone aor across okay here and here nice so does so have an I thought so was just s o I think it might be so pick up on as a Vibe is sense and then this is sense almost there oh okay so not as much is less oh what's this Oris hold on what did I get wrong is it pre with a z it is O okay that's a bit of a stretch I don't know or teas I guess yeah I forgot that so had that L at the end interesting all right well how'd you do let's do strands for August 23rd today's Strands theme is the nose nose H what does the nose know smell I'm looking for smell I am not seeing smell or sense um scent I don't actually see scent I thought I I thought the SC would surely lead to scent um maybe here send no we could do sense okay let's hold off on that maybe I can figure out what the theme actually is here uh clearly it's mandit um what would we what would the nose know nose related things stink I don't see stink um odor I'm not seeing odor I'm seeing opportunities for odor but none actually that are odor uh perfume fragrance redness almost seeing redness um what would the nose know sand is this like two can Sam or is this isn't that like follow your nose for fro Loops um got moan what what is what are we trying to do here I already I found sense here I guess at this point I'll try to lock it in yeah I I didn't think so but like is there something we can do with sense or is it just feudal senal I don't know what are what are we doing with the nose you can blow your nose mucus I saw mu and thought of mucus trunk like different kinds of noses the sniffer um okay I may be taking this too literally I don't know like how I could take this less literally but I mean I'm being pretty literal but like how else am I supposed to be on on something called the nose nose maybe skunk oh we don't actually wait we don't actually have skunk [Music] skung the heck is going on here no knowledge you can't actually do knowledge that's how I spell it um moo Moon I'm going to try any word I see at this point we'll try no as well I do see scent here and sense how did I missed that earlier it wasn't right but how' I miss that earlier is it some kind of scent I see love love love scent I mean it's not that but I'm thinking the spag is very close to something like that love scent um what I try did I try just love Yeah lovely lovely scent low low ah what could this be Dove Dove scent Ro scent Cove scent I don't know I see oval Ro and Cove and coven I don't know Dove we got scent can't be here by accident right oh sents can go two different ways so it can't be sent actually oh no it can't go two different ways never mind I'm crazy so it could be sense but what goes before that would have to be the SI anagram move move I can't figure it out okay if this was what's the bottom right doing musk okay so this is this is right I just don't know how to how to I don't know where the span's doing at but on the bottom left then we've got this area that we have to deal with Elmo um I don't know what what is this doing this area it has to go through this o right if I highlight sense it's got to come through this o somehow Nom ner I don't know what this L's doing like floral I don't know I thought of floral all right how about over here like wood wood Woods wood scent um come on why would wood be here wooden [Music] uh darn it let's highlight this again o it could go this way too we could do sense this way or we could do do it this way oh that's how I had this I had the other one highlighted before so let's let's highlight this now that gives us a bit more room SM what the heck smolder can't do can't quite do smolder okay I just need I just need more words for a smell are these perfume scents cuz I'm actually allergic to perfumes so I am very unfamiliar with them dense um land lands what what are I thought I thought wood was was like a scent I don't know what there's floral perfumes are there like sand you smell like sand it's so nice um I feel like I would recognize most of the words I'm having trouble coming up with them on their own Essence maybe it's Essence I almost see how to do it there we go ESS are you kidding me wood Essence L maybe that's the spag is there like a different there's another way to draw it that's crazy do do we have Aroma what would be on the top left there up here this Double R is is concerning to me actually Cedar I think there's Cedar here SE Cedar there we go so wood isn't but Cedar is I see how it is um so then if we did Essence this way this R would get isolated so we can't do that is there a different way to do Essence that's the same way oh the other way is just it's the similar but yeah we got to use this R somehow weird that Essence would be there too there's something I'm not getting about this um what's this R doing though cr r we just start with r like re or we could end an ER um is essener something essener wood wooden this way no woodens stench uh Nets spe specifically the smell of the Nets what's going on over here like nasal I don't know we have Cedar and musk I mean these feel like perfumes right perfume smells do we have cologne in general here I don't even know how to spell cologne it's like c o l o g NE e or something I could try omitting the G no there's there's a really funny um it's a video where they just searched for tweets that spelled cologne as colon and it's hilarious I love the smell of his colon um let's see loan I am going Loco is what I'm doing I I don't know the names of perfumes love love love love is here Essence is here sent is here like none of them are right I'm so confused the [Laughter] snot snot goes in the nose um least comes from the nose moat why wouldn't it be wood Woods woodsy smell W Woody I don't know like I feel like there's a lot of floral sense what would they use for floral I'm trying to think like Lilac or Rose or I see Rose here okay okay we're we're thinking now what's going on over here the nerd sense no um red something red redness so it isn't Essence cuz Rose used up some of that but we still have sents we'd have to do Elmo we'd have to do Elon or Nal I don't know maybe not then end Ren cren of like what are what are these letters doing okay got to got to think about more scents what do people like to smell like sandal like oh Sandalwood okay that that used a good number of letters I mean our span has to go top to bottom now and I feel like it's going to end in sense sorry with M or at least going to that M move sense I don't know what is it but if we if we do end incent what are we doing with Elmo over there lemon lemon we definitely our span definitely ends in sense I still can't figure it out we just have one word besides the spog so I feel like we can't cross through here too because then we would break the spog so I think the stuff over here okay so we have a really long spag so then what's going on over here then cren is this e part of our spog or is it used by the other word [Music] Mavis does this ring a bell at all mm o or M M O NS e s voluminous it's Val vense I don't know I need to find the other word Ren what about like going around like this mock R Rock no I might have to use a hint I don't know avocado no um almond almond scent no I mean we can do [Music] almond I feel like it's got to be a long word all right I am going to hit hint lavender ooh tricky common sense ah okay there we go I actually knew what all of them were I just couldn't find them anyway and it was a play on words Common Sense uh I don't know why I didn't think about that it's so obvious and retrospect but that was really tough all right well how'd you do [Music] C [Music]