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Sides of this Letter Box are:
YAHCIEOKRWTS
The answers are:
WATCHTOWERRISKY
SKYWATCHER-RIOT
a Star Wars spinoff, no?
Rio is accepted, so Skywatcher Rio for 13/2. That actually would be a good name for a waterway….
Also Ois Skywatcher, which is nice thematically, as Oi is the Maori name for the Grey-faced Petrel, which doubtless keeps an close eye on the sky.
PS Our own close eye out for thematic integrity proved helpful in Spelling Bee today!
After a really long time I got OIS SKYWATCHER as well.
SKYWATCHER – RIO was my answer today too. Little iffy on RIO, but if they want to accept it, I’ll take the 13/2!
Same, Steph.
WATCHTOWERS SKYR
SKYWATCHER–RIO here, as well. Not for the first time, I noticed they don’t accecpt SEAWRACK.
COACHES – SKYWRITER
(to avoid a SKYWATCHER RIOT)
I didn’t expect it to accept Rio 🤷🏼♀️
Same.
After the more efficient SKYWRITE was rejected for some reason.
TACHOS – SKYWRITER 16/2, which strikes me as a tad meta. I went over WHITE, TRASH, TREACHERY, COATER, THEOCRAT, WHISKER, and WHISKEY.
Some of my finds on the way to Skywatcher Rio / Ois Skywatcher:
Witchery, Shocker(s), Teacake(s), Wiseacre(s), and Sockeye(s), which DHW already found.
Also Thwack, the sound of the self-administered dope slap for missing an easy LB solution.
THWACKS SERIOSITY is what I found
Let’s toast: “TO OCHER RAW WHISKEY”
Also WATERISH – HOCKEY (when the ice melts)…
soit threw wacky
took a while to find only WHITEWASHER – SOCKEYE
took a while to find only WHITEWASHERS – SOCKEYE
WRAITHS-SOCKEYE here
Kiosks Skywatcher
Skywatcher Rio
I had COWCATCHER – RISKY
Indeed it is, Goblin! Cowcatcher is a great find, btw.
Same here
SHOWCASES—SKYWRITERS
SKYWRITERS—SHOWCASES
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Found the same combos Mark. Relatively quickly, but didn’t see shorter solutions to go with my initial SKYWRITER, so I’ll take the win on the thematic front.
COIRS – SKYWATCHER.
Same here
Official.
Official for me too, and for once it was fast!
My first solution, like Goblin, was COWCATCHER-RISKY, but the one I found that I liked best was WATERISH – HOCKEY, which brought to mind the NHL’s disastrous 2021 outdoor game in Lake Tahoe when the ice melted.
Thanks for your knowledge, DW! I made a joke, unaware that there was an actual precedent. You see, ice-hockey is not particularly big in the temperate Med…
What with climate change, I am not sure hockey will be particularly big anywhere before too long!
Tacky Wacky
RITES—SHOW—WACKY
RESHOW—WIT—TACKY
YEW—WRAITH—HOCKS
WHITE—EYRAS—SOCKS
TIRES—SHOW—WACKY
WIRES—SHOT—TACKY
WRAITH – HOCKEYS
This for me as well.
Today I have trios and skywatchers
weathercocks – shirty
Watchtowers Skyish
Skyish ????
Hotcakes skywriter
💦🤫🏒
Waterish hockey.
I got stuck on whitewasher(s) for longest.
Seems like one of you found a match for it.
SKYWATCHER – RIOT
Wraiths sockeye
Skywatcher Rio
Ah DW, you mention climate change . . .
A WARNING
A note from the wiseacre guy in the sky,
As his waterish witchery floods where its dry
And us skywatchers watch from the watchtower high;
As the icecaps melt in the blink of an eye.
The skywriter writes with a whiskerish brush,
Like wires of light in the warming hush
As the weathercock whirls to the song of a thrush
And the white words warn, we have taken too much.
If there is to be hope, then we all must try
To decipher the how, for we all know the why.
Is it treachery, writing that danger is nigh?
No; his skywriting echoes our own desperate cry.
Great, Jill. And chilling.
Great poem Jill! Skywatcher rio for me. Was hoping for Witchery to be part of the solution….