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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ERNHFTCAYIOS
The answers are:
FANTASTICCROTCHETY
Fancies/ shorty 13/2
Nice to get it so quickly and at three in the morning 😊
Yes… Fancies Shorty
(We like less letters.)
Fancies Shorty here as well, almost instantly. Describes my XL partner’s first contact with my miniature self.
Tons of inventive answers today – a lot more fun than the recent run of sole two-word answers!
feats synchronic
Seems apt
Same!
Forties Snatchy
Sure age brings experience, but it takes a lot too.
Guess that kind of goes along with the official answer.
STRATIFIES—SYNCHROTRONS
SYNCHROTRONS—STRATIFIES
I like more letters. 😉
Fears Synchronicity
We worked together, but I was not afraid.
Excellent!
Also FASCINATES—SYNCHRONICITY
Dammit, I thought I’d done well with FINANCES – SHORTY. Still, at least it was a quick solution.
Yup, once you got there, you could have even simply shortened it to FIANCES.
So, the fiance’s shorty would be his fiancee.
…or not, as the case may be 😉
FIANCES / SHORTY 13/2 Was accepted… hmmm
INFECTORS SHANTY.
Horses-Sanctify
Same, and Seahorses Sanctify as well
HORSES – SANCTIFY for me too!
Goodness, am I the first in with the official answer? Not that it’s better, mind you. Worse than all these other ones, in fact.
ORIFICES – SHANTY 14/2.
Same here
The word list has also axed SYRAH (maybe they like their MERLOT better).
They may indeed. For reasons that escape me, MERLOT is a playable Scrabble word (according to Merriam-Webster) but SYRAH is not. And yet, SHIRAZ is playable, despite being a synonym for SYRAH. Go figure.
This is exactly it, DW! In light of that, I don’t anymore know about BORDEAUX, which I’ve been keeping in reserve…
got FANCIES SHORTY…
Feats Synchronicity
Fanfics Story Yech.
FIESTAS – SYNCHRONY
Similarly: fates-synchronicity
NOTIFIES – SCRATCHY
SANCTIFIES SHORTY / A blessing for DeVito
Fascinates Shorty
ORIFICES-SNATCHY 😂
AIRFORCES – SHANTY. E.g., old Quonset hut.
SCRATCHIEST – TONIFY Another long one, but fun playing with so many vowels today 🙂
Letter Boxed has homesteaded a corner of my brain. While looking up the outdated spelling UNCONTROVERTIBLY (most recent citation 1913?), it occurred to me “It has 12 different letters: a potential one-word solution!” 😀
That’s an interesting idea. We know 12/1 solutions are possible, as we saw LEXICOGRAPHY a couple weeks ago. Your UNCONTROVERTIBLY would be a 16/1 solution. Hence, the question arises. Are 13/1, 14/1, 15/1, and larger, solutions possible? Theoretically yes (i.e. HYDROSULFATES), but in the actuality of the game, I’m not sure. It seems logical that if a 12/1 is possible, so too should be those larger types. I’ve never seen them, but they could be there, just lurking beneath the surface.
Alas, we’re always at the mercy of the games word list, which is clearly a subset of larger available dictionaries.
But the frontier is close.
🙂
Reply. I only looked at 12-1 answers. I guess it’s time to look for 13-1 etc.
The accepted word list is one limitation; the way letters are distributed (array on each side) is another. Surely, we’ve all had the “If only I could use those two letters together!” moment.
Official. Being seasonal in my thematic mind: Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, a FANTASTIC-CROTCHETY character, who still creeps me out.
Best Scrooge evah!
starchiest – tonify
Hooray! I am not the only one with starchiest-tonify. No theme and not particularly short.
Got:
TORCHES SANCTIFY
But it took an embarrassingly long time, which involves finding:
CONSTRAINT TETCHY (F)
CHYRONS STRAFE (I)
FINCHES STARY (O)
TORCHES SANITY (F)
TRIFECTAS SHINY (O)
CRYONIC CHAFES (T)
CRYONICS SAFEST (H)
Also, some disallowed ones:
SYRIAN
HANSEATIC
HEARTEYES
*involved
Also found:
CHASTITY
CONSTRAINT
FORTIFIES
HEARTIES (as in, “me hearties”)
INFINITY
INSTANTIATE
IRONIC
NOTCHES
SCORCHES
TECHNICS
TRIFECTA
FATES SYNCHRONICITY
FINANCES and SHORTY. Somewhat related.
That’s my answer,too. It’s also the state of my bank account.
Airforces Shanty
ARCHITECTONICS–SAFETY for the win! 20/2
Could be the longest solution so far today?
HONORIFIC – CONSECRATORY
archaeons sanctify
Holy microorganisms
So many great answers today! Boring old official for me.
HONORIFICS — SAFETY
CHANTIES — STORIFY (OR: CHANTEYS — STORIFY)
NOTIFIES – SCRATCHY 16/2
Or there is OCEANFRONTS SHINY. And…yes…they are quite shiny in general. Might be a lesson in there.