Throw a FLAG onto the FIELD in the middle of the FIGHTing AREA to create a BARRIER

#short #connections from the @nytimes is a lot like the wall round on the show #OnlyConnect, and it's a lot of fun!
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Smooth solve.

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Perfect Connections. This was a little tricky. I made two errors: I took the bait with geometric shapes and I thought a chain would work as a traffic control device. I also thought about "word pyramid" (it could conceivably be a word game).