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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ORTJKUCAILNY
The answers are:
JOCULARITYYANK
JOCULARITY—YANK
KAJAL—LOCUTIONARY
KINKAJOU—UNCLARITY°
KARANJINʷ—NOCTURNALITY
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° OED, ʷ Wiktionary
karanjin : A furanoflavonol obtained from the seeds of the karanja tree, and used as a pesticide and insecticide.
Also OA after 30 minutes of chasing other words.
OA for me in about five minutes today. Got lucky.
JOCULARITY – YANK too.
JOCULARITY-YANK immediately. Complete opposite to yesterday.
When laughter tugs at you.
Same, JOCULARITY YANK…
You’re pullin’ my chain.
Pirated Idioms
Wait.
Been runnin round my brain:
Pulling my leg?
Yanking my chain?
Walk the plank in my eye
Or the sliver in vain
Long John Silver
was a giant pain.
Birds in the bush
Hooked on my hand
Leader of a murderous band.
But on the great round earth
What if I’m the square peg.
If you twist my arm,
I’ll yank my leg.
Exactly the same experience
Yes! A gift after yesterday’s LB misery.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Nice super fast OA.
Found OA, not immediately, but not too long…
Did tickle my funny bone 😉
Exactly the same. 30 seconds today vs a fail yesterday.
KINJO—OCULARITY
JARIYAT—TURNCLOAK
CYCLOALKANOL—LURITJA
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All in Wiktionary, with Luritja being a proper name.
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JOLKININʷ—NOCTUARYʷ
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ʷ Wiktionary
jolkinin : (organic chemistry) : An ellagitannin found in Euphorbia jolkinii.
noctuary : (plural noctuaries) : A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
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OChem in today’s array: karanjin, cycloalkanol, and jolkinin.
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OA
Fiddled with KNOCKOUT, NATURALITY, etc
Oa
OA
Bombed out today. Had to resort to obscuriana.
JOCULARITY YOINK*
*Cambridge Dictionary
YOKOL* LOCUTIONARY
*Dictionary of the Shetland Dialect.
Also tried JOURNALITY* YUCK
*only could find one example:
“The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson“Ya
NONJOCULARITY* YAK
*word appears in “Micro-syntactic Variation in North American English.” 2014
Tarnation and ruination! For a bit of jocularity, I noticed LB accepted nucular! Haha
Antiknock, antilock are knockout lockouts and clock out is a clonky turncoat
Janky continuation naturality but …rationality?
Jocularity! jocularity! Father Mulcahy gettin tuned up at the stag smoker prior to Margret’s marriage
OA. Hee-hee! Pull my finger!
OA
OA after bunch of ality,ation words. Describes some of our posters from northern U.S.
JOCULAR – RINKYTINK
OA. Thankfully, after a dry spell.
OA I don’t think I’ve paired one this fast before… Jocularity was the first word I typed in!
OA after spending awhile with locutionary