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Sides of this Letter Box are:
CVOTNMPALIRE
The answers are:
IMPOLITICCRAVEN
OA straight away!
Ditto.
Civet Trampoline
Made me smile. Thanks
Omigosh, what a wonderful solve! Way to go Nitesh!
Importance Evil.
Thought this had a good chance at being the OA.
IMPORTANCE – EVIL too.
IMPORTANCE had been a part of the OA just recently.
Same, IMPORTANCE EVIL. Not often that there seems to be a better solution than OA, but maybe. 2 repeated letters
Same
Same
Same.
Brush your teeth! Protective and enamel.
Me too.
Ditto on IMPORTANCE – EVIL. Also had the less efficient IMPORTANCE – ELEVATION, simply because I found elevation before importance.
Same. Seems more straightforward than the actual OA. It has to be if I got it so quickly!
Same here. I think importance – evil is a better solution.
Another Importance Evil after dancing around the square a few times…
Didn’t like it much as it seems too close to another recent solution. The number of possible solves is always inversely PROPORTIONATE to the word limit and I hoped for something a little more inventive.
Combining your word with Mark’s:
PROPORTIONATE — ELECTROMOTIVE
Ridiculously inefficient 26/2 solve but fun to type in!
I love it! – the longer the better …
I’m getting in just under the wire with more electromotive:
1) PRATE ELECTROMOTIVE
2) ELECTROMOTIVE EPINICIAN
My TIs:
1) an electric motor that chatters foolishly and to little purpose (although my observation is that actually they’re saying “I’m about to break!”)
2) A Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete that is either produced by or results in an electric current …
😎🐝
Other words that i saw included:
PRACTICIAN
MORTICIAN
ENVELOPE
ENAMEL
CRAMPON
but i abandoned working on them since Electromotive had fewer leftover letters!
😎🐝
Yes, I too thought Importance Evil would be the OA and was surprised it was Impolitic Craven instead. I do note, however, a common and chilling theme.
I also found Normative Ecliptic or Epileptic, the baseline for case studies in either field.
Micropolitan Nave
Prominence – Elevate
This was my answer too. Got it in about a minute.
Motivation necropole
Same! Thought for sure it would be OA. Solved on first try
Same!
Proactive-Enamel
Enamel is “the hardest tissue in the human body.” Flawless TI! Well done.
Protective – Enamel
I really sunk my teeth into this one, today.
Me too. Really surprising to see that it wasn’t the OA.
Same! All about teeth 🙂
PROTECTIVE—ELIMINATE
and the even less efficient
ELIMINATION—NONPROTECTIVE
RAVIOLI—IMPORTANCE
Italian food is my favorite.
TRAMPOLINE—ELECTROMOTIVE
A new Olympic event for 2028.
Your ELECTROMOTIVE hint gave me ELECTRONIC and then OPTOELECTRONIC (related to light emitting diodes, etc.) which gave me:
OPTOELECTRONIC — CAVEMEN/CAVEMAN
Lots of great words today!
We got TRAMPOLINE – EVICT, yours is clever but I feel like ours was less taxing!
METROPOLITAN — NONACTIVE
VICTIM — METROPOLITAN
Also saw VACATION and LIMITATION
Bill, our victims succumbed one minute apart.
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monotropic—caravel
VICTIM—METROPOLITAN
Crime is on the rise in the city.
Prominence Elevate –
A couple times around the box and I settle for redundancy once again! …
Also certain there were better solutions. Well done all and good day!
PROMINENCE- ELEVATE too but I felt like a big shot after this find.
OGSteph!
I always like it when we register the same solution, and you are a big shot to me!!
I’m just outta jokes. “Redundancy again” is the best I got!
Well you made me 🤣 again reduntantly, with pleasure, Mvua
PROMINENCE with a choice of ELEVATE, ELEVATOR or ELEVATION
Back to sleep for a couple more hours.
From the Department of Redundancy Department.
Same solution. Thought this would be the OA because the words were similar.
Importance Evil
TRAMPOLINE
EVICT
Today was quick, and different from OA!
Same for me.
TRAMPOLINE – EVICT
Houston, we have a problem.
IMPORTANCE and EVIL
I had PTOLEMAIC and CARAVAN first but even though ptolemaic is a word it wasn’t accepted.
I see there are several possible 2 word solutions to this particular puzzle.
POLICEMAN NORMATIVE
Another POLICEMAN NORMATIVE.
I got POLICEMAN – NORMATIVE too! I’m glad this grid had multiple solutions to find because I accidentally clicked here first and saw the OA 😬
protective-enamel
MORE from the Department of Redundancy Department!
VICTIM-METROPOLITAN after looking at numerous promising options.
PROACTIVE ELIMINATE
Me too!
Yes, me as well. And works in either direction.
Nope that was another one.
Impotence Elevator
Um, I thought elevation (or lack thereof) was the problem?
Proactive enamel
TRAMPOLINE EVINCE
NORMATIVE ECLIPTIC. Where the sun do shine!
Pelican
Normative
proactive enamel
Importance-Eleven
MOTIVATION NECROPOLE
Full of motivational epitaphs
PROTEOMIC- CIVILIAN quickly but knew that it could not be the OA
And the OA, not long after
Carminative – elope
This made me laugh. No thematic integrity with this one.
IMPORTATION – NONVIOLENCE
Inefficient … but all my own! I’ll take that tradeoff any day.
I got Nonviolence, then Importation, but didn’t think to join them, got Importation Navel Lice for a 3w, but right after tried IMPORTANCE and saw EVIL = the 2w answer. Expected it to be the OA.
Policeman. Normative.
Motivation Necropole
Clomp Penetrative. I bags today’s most awkward and most uncomfortable solution.
Take your boots off before you assume the position!
Now that I’ve read that, I can’t UNREAD it!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
You’re lucky. At that point I hadn’t thought of pirates in love 😮
Trampoline/evince
Another protractive enamel
petrolic/caveman – and it took me way too long given all the better answers out there!
victim – metropolitan
metropolitan nonviolence
AMELIORATIVE–ENCAMP
Well all feel better once we get back to the bivouac.
Had found another solution this morning, but this popped into my head as I was out hiking. Had to try it out on the old grid when I got home to see if it worked.
metropolitan nonviolence
Importance Envelope
This is the best one I’ve seen in a long time. So many solutions!