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Sides of this Letter Box are:
DOMFNBGAIRLE
The answers are:
DEBRIEFFLAMINGO
A poem with words found in yesterdayβs puzzle, including those from Markβs short-word grid: ketch, muckle, kelt, two, owl, lum, outcharm, welcome, chum, rockwork, earthworm, chuckle, cumulate, clockwork, mark, howl
THE NIGHT HOWL
(Setting is a fishing village in the north of Scotland, where βmuckleβ and βlumβ are perhaps still in everyday use)
A ketch in the bay,
Muckle kelt in the stream,
Two fishwives singing:
Itβs a screech-owlβs dream.
Atop a stone lum
βGainst a darkening sky,
Our owl outcharms
With her owlish eye.
And then down below
In the blue twilight,
Come the welcome dogs,
Their fur burning bright.
They welcome the fishermen
Back from the sea,
Their teeth bared with joy
And their tails wagging free.
With the dogs in the lane
And the owl up high
Itβs a tableau vivant
βGainst the darkening sky,
βTill an eveningβs hearth fire
Sends smoke up the lum
And the owl takes flight,
We can hear her wings hum.
Down the rockwork quay
The dogs follow her straight
To the bay where the ketch
Is in anchoring state.
They stop at the shoreline,
Still not saying muckle
(So quiet, almost,
As an earthwormβs chuckle);
But then there arises
The dogsβ frantic bark,
And the owl calls back
In the deepening dark.
Perched high on the mizzen
She calls to her chums;
And their voices all mingle;
Cacophony thrums.
Though we may be unable
To catch muckle sleep
While the owl screams
And the barking dogs leap,
Still weβre outcharmed
By this night symphony,
The cumulate voices
Of owl and dogs free.
As the bay water shines
In a moonlit glow,
One more owlβs call
To the dogs down below:
Aloft the aft mast,
With her silhouette stark
As a clockworkβs harking
Of the midnight mark,
Our screech-owl howls
Her avian bark,
And the dogs howl back
In the deepening dark.
Brilliant!
Very atmospheric. Thank you, Jill! π
We’re being spoiled with masterpieces, here!
Breathtaking! Jill, as a poet, you are our…
TQL-CIN-UVE-ROA (19/2)
UNEQUIVOCAL – LAUREATE, maybe?
Thanks DW and Sota!
Wordplay with this group (my only engagement with ‘social media’) is often a highlight of my day.
Sota for the win!!
What a wonderful way to start the day – Amazing Jill! Love the imagery and the cleverness. Thank you!
I love it.
BALD β DEFORMING (13/2)
OR:
DEFORMING β GLOBAL (15/2)
Got DEFORMING β GLOBAL here as well!
got DEFORMING GLOBAL
After I couldn’t make anything with BOARDING or ROAMING, came up with:
BEFRIENDING-GLOAMING
(Yes I did try just BEFRIENDING-GLOAM, but apparently GLOAM itself is not in the dictionary, though GLOAMING is. So, enjoy the double -INGs.)
deforming seems to be a good one π
BOGLAND—DEFORMING
BALD—DEFORMING
FRAMING-GLOBED
Befriending Gloaming
Farming Globed 13/2
Flamingo Orbed 13/2
Brilliant, PG (though the poor thing is probably suffering from indigestion)!
Framing Globed
Larboard Defaming
Marbling Golfed
FLAMBΓING-GROANED
or RAMBLING – GOLFED.
Same, PG.
I was very happy to find GLOAMING– one of my favorite words in the English language.
FLAMBEING-GROANED
You may groan, but it was accepted
Blaming Glorified (at any given moment on Faux News) or Ambling Glorified (as the opposite of golf, a good walk spoiled) or even Embalming Glorified (in arguing against cremation).
Cockles duly warmed, Bernie!
Flamed Deboarding, the latter in a hurry because of the former.
FADE – EMBROILING.
Yes! Me tooβand my quickest solve yet. Surprised it wasn’t the official.
DEFORM MARBLING
FRAME – EMBOLDENING
Not efficient, but at least it was quick today
Thatβs what I got, and also relieved it was quickly found.
FOAMBOARD-DEALING
Farming Globed
BALD – DEFORMING 13/2. It had been a while since I last scored a 13/2, and I was determined to exhaustively look for one with this array (the fact that the Greek Orthodox Church is celebrating the Epiphany today may have played a part in my finally succeeding). Went through lots of words including LAND, BOARD(ING), BROAD, BIRD, BINGO, FLAME, RADIO, BADGE, BARGE, ARDEB, FILMED, BARONG, FLAMINGO, FROGMAN (FROGMEN), RAMBLING, LABORING, GOBLIN, MALFORMED, FORBID, LABROID, FLAMBEING, plus some interesting anagrams (such as GEMINAL / MEALING or RIBALD / BRIDAL).
Debriefing and Gloaming
I get so excited about the ING that I simply MUST over-use it.
: )
Framing – globed
Lots of good ones today!
bioform medaling
What robots see when they watch the Olympics.
I had MANGOLD – DEBRIEF, but in an attempt to include my name I came up with FROG – GOBLIN – NAMED
Yup, I thought you might, this time around, GOBLIN!
DEFRAMING was not on (for a 2-word solution).
Yes, I tried that too…
Farming globed
Pretty quickly too
MARBLING – GOLFED. No thematic integrity whatsoever. I prefer the idea of debriefing a flamingo. Speaking of which, while I did not see FLAMINGO, I was hoping to do something with FANDANGO, in honour of Procul Harum.
Sorry, Procol Harum. Insufficient coffee at the moment.
Procul Harum is said to be the original Latin phrase (‘beyond these things’) misspelled to form the band’s name.
I would like to be able to claim I knew that!
Well now you can, DW, thanks to Sota!
Yeah, you can have that for free, DW -even though, plausible as it seems, it’s not the only theory around that peculiar naming (had to get in comment #70)…
FARMLAND – DEBONING
This was mine too. π
DEFORMING and GLOBAL. Somehow relevant.
FlambΓ© Engorged
Lots of solutions today. I got FLAMBEING-GORGED
embalmed deforming
First … FRAMING — GLOBED
Then … RAMBLING — GOLFED
EMBARGOING-GOLFED
Same
FARMING – GLOBED right off, but knowing there were tons of solutions out there today came up with the following as well:
EMBALMING – GLORIFIED (process reserved for saints?)
AMBLING – GLORIFIED (a good walk is often a spiritual experience π
BEAMING – GLORIFIED
FADE – EMBROILING
FLAMINGO – ORBED (an ornamental staff in some bird cultures?)
Nice to have a chance to play today!
RAMBLING GOLFED
farming – globed
FLAMING GORBED is accepted, 13/2. I don’t know what GORBED refers to.
MIND βοΈ
MIND—DEF—FLOG—GRAB
BARM—MIND—DEF—FLOG
GLOB—BARM—MIND—DEF
FORB—BEG—GLAM—MIND
Debriefing Gloaming, Flamingo Orbed
Flamingo orbed here π
FARMLAND – DEBONING
FARMING GOBLINED
I got bald-deforming but hubby got my favorite: beaming-grandiflora πΈ
BALD DEFORMING
Embargoed-Defiling
Debrief,Flamingo
With visions of a pink lawn ornament having been pantsed.
My first two word solution in a few days.
Befriending-Gloaming
Didnβt get wordle but got this today
A banner day for us Letterboxers, from with Jillβs mystical versifying to a near surfeit of inventive solutions. Iβm looking at PG in particular, but really everyone has been at the top of their game today!
Embargoing – glorified