Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers: #1224, Saturday, October 17
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Your pocket keeps interrupting dinner.
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Short sounds and pop-ups a device produces when something new arrives for you.
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One of the four: CHIME
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DIGITAL NOTIFICATIONS: ALERT, CHIME, DING, PING
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Darkroom and viewfinder share a glossary.
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Nouns a camera person uses for one captured frame, or a paper copy of it.
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One of the four: STILL
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PHOTO: PRINT, SHOT, SNAP, STILL
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Sideways walkers answer to several names.
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Varieties of a clawed shellfish, sold by the pound at seafood counters.
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One of the four: FIDDLER
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KINDS OF CRABS: FIDDLER, HERMIT, KING, SNOW
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A tiny foreign article does the heavy lifting.
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Each follows the same feminine article from Romance languages: a theater, an opera, a city, a tar site.
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One of the four: SCALA
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LA ___: BOHÈME, BREA, PAZ, SCALA
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