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Sides of this Letter Box are:
BLZEWOADIMTF
The answers are:
WALTZZOMBIFIED
wifedom-metabolize
Me too
same
Nice. I had Wifedom but didn’t see Metabolize. This was the rare Z/Q/X/J type puzzle where the limiting letters isn’t the Z/Q/X/J. That W was really limiting. Had far more Z-words than words with a W. Thought I’d be able to finish Lobotomized among many others. Eventually heard the Monster Mash and found Waltz, long after adding Zombified to my word list. Definitely a bit of a struggle today. Happy to have it done with.
WIFEDOM-METABOLIZE too
pressure to stay thin for hubby….in a bygone era 😏
Also hung up on LOBOTOMIZE(D), so came up with FAWL* – LOBOTOMIZED.
I struggled with this off and on all day having fixated on Metabolized….until voila…wifedom emerged. Trying to get rid of the W was a challenge.
OA here.
OA Today?
Me too
OA.
WALTZ – ZOMBIFIED
Dead in their tracks.
Good one!! 😊
Seriously, though, zombified? Where do they come up with this goofiness. Even if I did get it. Why is demetabolized not a word but zombified is?
NK
OA too.
WIFEDOM-METABOLIZE
*TWAFALD-DEMOBILIZE
*TWAFALD good in OED, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
OA
OA after striking out with MOBILIZED and LOBOTOMIZED. After that I figured the f and z had to be in the same word.
A toned down monster mash
Never would have found ZOMBIFIED. I got WALTZED and ZOMBIED. It didn’t occur to me to drop the -ED and connect on the Z stretching ZOMBIED to ZOMBIFIED. I have to remind myself that longer words do not always lead to a solution. E.g. WALTZ worked but not WALTZED.
Took a while but I got it after spending too much time on Demobilzed and Metabolized.
Can someone tell.me what OA means?
OA means Official Answer.
☕
OA=Official Answer
The official answer is not always the most optimal answer.
Yea, I was confused too, at first, with this blogs comment-section-jargon.
Another term I see from time to time is ALIOW (or something like that). Somebody probably told me what it means, but I always forget by the time it pops up again.
At least it’s over with.
ALIOW=at least it’s over with
Also can be an acronym for All Letters In One Word, the holy grail of solves, with some remembering lexicography sometime ago.sometimes I submit a madeup aliow for fun
WIFEDOM—METABOLIZE(D)
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WALTZ—ZOMBIFIED
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BOMBAZET^—TWIFOLD^
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^Merriam-Webster
bombazet: a thin plain or twill-woven worsted cloth with smooth finish used for dresses and coats
twifold: twofold.
Some tried words:
DEDOLOMITIZE(D)°, BIFOLIOLATE°, DEBILITATED, DEMOBILIZED, LOBOTOMIZED,
FAWL* – LOBOTOMIZED
*The word “fawl” can refer to two different things: a noun meaning “a bird of any kind,” or a surname with various origins. It can also be a mispronunciation or misspelling of “foul,” which means “offensive, dirty, or bad.”
OA
WIFEDOM — METABOLIZE/METABOLIZED
I really wanted LOBOTOMIZED to work but couldn’t find anything to pair it with. Found METABOLIZE earlier and found WIFEDOM working off the M.
Wifedom metabolize(d)also tried mobilize,lobotomize,atomize,embolize
Other interesting tries. Debilitated,wildlife,oilfield,militated,waltzed,deflated,zealot,biofilm,fatwa
Couldn’t believe it but FEMBOT was accepted. Thought it was just Austin Powers coinage
BELIEF FATWA ATOMIZE
surprised Embolize not accepted.
OA, after going in circles with DEMOBILIZED, WALTZED, FATWA, etc.
Wasn’t Zombified or Zombify part of another OA? Within the past two years or so?
Found METABOLIZE(D) early on but could never link it up with anything. Congrats to those managed to do it.👍