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Sides of this Letter Box are:
AHBYISWTRXCO
The answers are:
BORSCHTTAXIWAY
BORSCHT—TAXIWAY
from soup to takeoff
🍲✈️
𝓛𝓲𝓴𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓮
Same after playing with Stowaway and Castaway
BORSCHT-TAXIWAY
*TAXIARCHS-SHOWBOY*
*TAXIARCHS good in Merriam-Webster
*SHOWBOY good in Wiktionary
*Taxiarchs – Showboaty
RIBOSWITCHʷ—HYRAX
TAXIARCHS^—SHOWBOATY
THYROSTATIC—CARBOWAX°
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ʷ Wiktionary, ^ Merriam-Webster, ° OED
correction : THYROSTATICʷ
I found it in Wiktionary.
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OA
A little soup before takeoff
borscht taxiway
fly in my soup
Mercifully quick OA today.
😀
OA
Seems like not many other choices
Inflight Dining Menus are always a bit limited.
So eating on a plane isn’t totally rad but its still kinda radish.
A good one!
OA, and agreed, not much wiggle room.
OA
OA, after getting frustrated at impossibilities with TOXIC or SIXTH.
Oa
BOWSHOT TAXIARCHY*
*The New American Cyclopedia
Would have never thought of TAXIARCHY, etc., but stuck a Y on the end of SHOWBOAT(S), and was surprised that LB took SHOWBOATY… Still couldn’t hook it up, but came up with TAXIWAY after stumbling across BORSCHT while I was checking something else.
I thought BORSCHTS would be accepted (it’s in the Scrabble dictionary I have) but not by LB. Not many options today. 🙂
OA after a struggle. Finally decided there would be some less obvious x word, tried it and left with borscht
Easy win today. OA