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Sides of this Letter Box are:
BUPRMINEOADW
The answers are:
DUMBBRAINPOWER
DUMPER – RAINBOW.
DUMPER / RAINBOW and very quick solve.
Same
Rainbowed and Dump
DUMB BRAINPOWER
BRAINPOWER RUMPED
My normally slow brain powered through this one pretty quickly.
Same very quickly. Although I found WINDPIPE and UNDERPIN first. But didn’t immediately see any connections.
TI: after an absolute downpour, we’re likely to see a treat in the sky! 🌧️ 🌈
Same DUMPER – RAINBOW after playing with EMPOWER(ED), BRAIN and DUMB(ER) without seeing OA(!), WINDOW, DRAIN, getting stalled on DOWNPOUR and REMEMBER(ED)/MEMORANDUM type words!
Rainbowed Dump
POWERBAND-DUMPIER
WINDPOWER-RUMBA
I got that too. Imagination running riot here!
Windpower- rumba for me too.
+1
And another Windpower-Rumba
BRAINPOWER-RUMBAED
PARAMOUR-RAINBOWED
Me too
Found this answer as well as the OA
Windpower-rumba
my favourite type of dance
AMBEOID-DOWNPOUR
BIOPOWER-ROUNDMAN
Oops, AMEBOID-DOWNPOUR
Same
DUMB—BRAINPOWER
BRAINPOWER—RUMORED
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RUMBAED—DOWNPIPE
AMEBOID—DOWNPOUR
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EMPOWER—RAINBOUND
MANPOWER—RAINBOUND
WOMANPOWER—RAINBOUND
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainbound
I tried POWERWOMAN which it wouldn’t take. Didn’t think of turning it around to WOMANPOWER. Good one Mark!
Thanks Gaye. I was surprised I only found ‘rainbound’ in Wiktionary. I think I’ll start using it along with MW and OED. ☕
So many good answers. I settled for Rumbaed — Downpipe
I looked up Rumbaed. It is a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance, according to the definition I found.
I wanted to find a word to go with Womanpower but did not think of Rainbound.
I got BRAINPOWER-RUMORD as well. At least, that’s the story floating around the campus at MIT.
Thanks for the information yesterday, Mark. My phone does not seem to have that particular emoji on it, but heavy checkmark to you for today’s finds!
☕✔🙂👍
OA.
Hate it when I click on here to see what people’s answers were for yesterday, and accidentally see today’s solutions before the puzzle has even been posted on the NYT site.
Been there, done that, hated it too!
I got that too. Imagination running riot here!
PARAMOUR-RAINBOWED
PIPEDREAMED-DOWNBOUND
I got RAINBOWED – DUMP
which i guess is what you see at the landfill after it rains 🌈 not exactly a pretty picture! I do love the image of WINDPOWER – RUMBA. I imagined it was the robot vacuum which does not need electricity, but it is the wrong spelling. The dance is fun too though!
I picture one of those scarecrows that flails around in the breeze.
Nice! The old one-legged air dancer. I got:
dumper-rainbow…
and, with apologies, thought: well, that’s what you get for having marshmallows for breakfast.
RAINBOWED DUMP also. Rainbow is a verb now?
Not proud of this, but I’ll take the win:
BRAINPOWER—ROUNDMAN
Brainpower rumped
dumper-rainbow
RAINBOWED – DUMP
DUMPER – RAINBOW
DUMB – BRAINPOWER
BRAINPOWER – RUMPED
BRAINPOWER – RUMORED
BRAINPOWER-RUMPED
Windpower rumba flags flapping in the breeze or sheets on the clothesline back in the day
dumb – brainpower
DUMB — BRAINPOWER I knew that one had to be the OA
Also played with PREPARE/PREPARED/UNDERPREPARED, ANAEROBE/ANAEROBIAN, REMAIN/REMAINDER, MURDERED, BARBERED, BOARDER, PAPERED
Marabou Unwiped*
Apparently unwiped not a word. Sad. Reverted to unicorn poo… dumper rainbow.
If unwiped is good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary, who cares if its not in this LB poor man’s word authority. MARABOU-UNWIPED is official.
OA in seconds. Got BRAINPOWER first then laughed as I realised what it had to be.
LB Short: MEN AND WOMEN DOWNUNDER REMEMBER UNDERPREPARED EIDERDOWN DRAMA AND RUIN NAME
DREAMPOWER PAIN BEND WIERD RAINBOW
POUNAMU UNIBROWED
DUMB-BRAINPOWER
You trying to tell us something, Sam?
Rainbowed-dump, in about 30 seconds.
Downpour remainder