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Sides of this Letter Box are:
CPINTAMFLOEY
The answers are:
FACELIFTTOPONYM
FACTFILE – EPONYM
Tried to make COMPETITION work but gave up. What’s convenient is FAMILY would have used up the remaining letters but doesn’t connect 😛
Within seconds of looking at today’s box, I noticed a host of C and F words – Compete, complete, completely, competition, completion,
– Family, famine, female, feminine, femininity.
An -IC connection would have helped. 🤨
Official answer today (as I thought it would be), easily eclipsed -already- by JILL’s well played solution. My non-starters of the day include FALCONET, EMPTILY, PLAYTIME, INFAMY, PAYNIM (some of which were aborted as soon as I got to my solution) &, annoyingly, MALEFACTION, that only left out Y & P.
Come to think of it, PAYNIM – MALEFACTION 17/2 is an answer but should we really go there?
…or maybe settle for the perfectly integral EPONYM – MALEFACTION at the expense of an extra letter?
Hi, Sota21! I posted this just now with yesterday’s puzzle, but it occurs to me that perhaps not everyone dives back into previous comments the way I do, so I’ll repeat it here.
Yes, Massive Attack is tres groovy! And someone else touted Placebo at some point, so I’m checking them out too. Who knew this could become a resource for music recommendations!
My current fixation is with Nick Cave, have you encountered him? I particularly recommend the album version (title cut) of Dig Lazarus Dig as an entry point. I was startled to find this touching piece about him in the Sunday NYTimes. An unexpectedly deep and thoughtful artist. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/12/magazine/nick-cave-interview.html
I really hope the rest of the group show some sympathy & understanding for us going off on all sorts of different tangents. Bare with us, dear co-puzzlers, since we have no other outlet to communicate our pennyworth. I’ve been following Nick Cave since his early years with The Birthday Party (late 70s). His voice sounds quite similar to John Cale’s (of Velvet Underground fame) who must be among his main musical influences too. He is brilliant & unique in so many ways and has played Athens numerous times over the course of his career.
I’ll be checking out the rest of your comments on previous days’ postings too, as I’m able to see a few & I’d hate to miss out on any of them. Take care then!
As above, so below… if you have never listened to John Cales Sabotage/Live you really should
This goes out to OSCAR; I remember playing SABOTAGE! on vinyl (still the best way to wallow in his majesty) and, by the end of ‘Chorale’, which is the absolute ‘tour-de-force’ last track, there was a perpetual buzz that you could only rid yourself of by pulling the needle off the groove!
Yes, apologies to all who find these off-topic tangents off-putting. (Insert some excuse here about wordplay being integral to Nick Cave, John Cale, Lou Reed, David Byrne et als.) My thanks to you and OSCAR for all the guides and signposts. I’ve taken to copying such comments and texting/emailing them to myself for future reference.
No shortage of long or medium length words to be found today. The trick is to find pairs that can be linked. F is fine as first letter, but dreadful as a link, and Y is a good last letter but not great as a link. C is superb if the I is available with it it, and having N and T on the same side of the box dramatically reduces the options.
I found ACETONEMIA AMPLIFY.
PLACEMEN—NOTIFY
14/2
Same.
COMPLETION – NIFTY
Oops, wishful thinking. Over-eager to be done today.
Words that work but I couldn’t pair:
OMNIFOCAL
INCOMPLETELY
Nice! Others include:
INCOMPLETION,
INCOMPETENCY,
IMPOTENCY,
COMPLACENCY,
NONCOMPETE
No joy pairing any of them up, I’m afraid. Maybe they’ll be of some help to others.
placemen – notify
Playtime, incompletion, incompletely just wouldn’t work.
So many possibilities with nothing panning out. After trying almost all those offered here and more besides, I finally pulled the trigger on Polynom – Malefaction just to get it over with.
Looks like Jill takes the prize today with the elegant Factfile Eponym.
No way I would ever have gotten to the official answer today. I mean, Toponym? Really? Come on!
Quite. TOPONYM sounded Greek to me 🙂
🤭love it
Had the same experience as everyone else. Great words but no pairing. Finally ended up with EPONYM – MALEFACTION.
14/2.AMYLOPECTIN
NIF
CAFONE-EMPTILY 13/2
Have to admit I don’t know what a CAFONE is; I tried it thinking of “car phone” said in the 80s by someone with a Boston accent.
CYTOPENIA — AMPLIFY
I really thought I had it when I found ‘amplify,’ but honestly, didn’t know about ‘cytopenia.’
ended up with a very frustrated PLACEMEN — NOTIFY
hard one today!
MOLINET TYPEFACE
Learned a new word today (Molinet) which is always a win for me.
Maru, after seeing your post, I looked up the molinet, and became obsessed with finding one for sale. No joy on Ebay, or anywhere else– not a single molinet to be had.
But I did discover that they sell at auction in the UK for around 5000L!
https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2018/five-lots-to-watch-at-auction-this-week-october-29-november-4-2018-including-a-rare-silver-chocolate-stirrer/
Thanks for introducing me to this beautiful implement. Perhaps they will come back into fashion, and be produced again.
Finally thought we might get Yclept out there but could find nothing
If the puzzle had accepted NONFAMILY, as it should, then NONFAMILY – YCLEPT would have done the trick (and made Bernie’s day).
Ha! Thanks for the shout-out, DW. I of course went immediately, and triumphantly, to Yclept, but it sadly proved to be a dead end.
My comment didn’t get approved in moderation before for some reason, but
CAFONE-EMPTILY
is a good 13/2 solution today. I didn’t know offhand what a “cafone” was but tried it randomly while thinking of how someone from Boston in the 1980s might have said “carphone.” 🙂
gave up and gave in to facetime/eponym/mil. good play Jill with factfile!