CE NYT Connections - Part 5

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Puzzle #318





Very challenging one.

Right off the bat, I saw 5 metric prefixes, and 3 sauces. My instinct was to put pico with the sauces, but none of the remaining words looked like they could even be a sauce.

Somehow a deep part of my mind remembered that poodle skirts were a thing, which took mini out of the prefixes, and everything started falling into place. Didn't get purple though.
Dedicated to D - 4/15/05