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The 16 prompts below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which may be placed in all four of those groups.
| Beaver | Cheat | Cod | Direction |
| Elf | Fuzzy Wuzzy | Jackson | Krill |
| Mountain Meadow | Negate | Outer Space | Sternal |
| Strait | Sum | U | Waxer |
Can you identify the four groups?
What new word can be placed in all four of those groups?
This tricky Connect Wall resolves like so:
Group 1: Band names missing numbers
One Direction
U2
Jackson 5
Sum 41
Group 2: Crayola colours
Beaver
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Mountain Meadow
Outer Space
Group 3: Can remove the chemical symbol of a noble gas to form another word
C[He]at = CAT without He (Helium)
[Ne]gate = GATE without Ne (Neon)
Ste[Rn]al = STEAL without Rn (Radon)
Wa[Xe]r = WAR without Xe (Xenon)
([Kr]ill was a cruel red herring in this category!)
Group 4: First and last letters are consecutive in the English alphabet
CoD
ElF
KrilL
StraiT
The word that links all four categories is:
MAROON
Maroon 5
The colour 'maroon'
M[Ar]oon = MOON without Ar (Argon)
MarooN
This also fits with the title, since:
to 'maroon' somebody is to abandon them!
