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Sides of this Letter Box are:
CLMKBARGYOWI
The answers are:
MICROBLOGGAWKY
Oa. Took me a while.
MICROBLOG—GAWKY
MICROBLOG—GAWKILY
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I’m interested to see if there are other solutions today as I only find two. Besides those valid ones I found two half solutions paired with proper names:
Blagomir—RACKWAY
WAYMARK—Kibological
The complete list of valid MICRO- words accepted:
MICROBIC, MICROBIAL, MICROBLOG, MICROCAR, MICROGLIA, MICROGLIAL, MICROCRACK, MICROLOGIC, MICROLOGICAL, MICROMOLAR, MICRORAY
Failed. BLACKMAIL – LOGIC – CARAWAY was the best I could do. Was hoping MYCOLOGICAL or RACKWAY would do the trick – completely missed the MICRO- prefix, would have gotten a solve if I hadn’t.
Waiting for RF and Irim to post their comments. Have a happy Sunday everyone!
MICROBLOG – GAWKILY. Took me so long to spot the MICRO- prefix and when I found it I tried so hard to form a word using it. And, succeeded. This solve took me 1 hour and 44 minutes.
Oh, I’m sorry Kanishk-boy. You can avenge Sam tomorrow with a quick solve.
Waiting for Miss Irim later…
I got the OA, but it definitely took awhile. Not long after I saw Micro- but it was purely as a guess because I didn’t see much else with Micro. I mean, Microblog? What is that? That’s a Facebook post or a tweet. Happy I got it, but it’s a stupid puzzle. 95/102, 11/12, 7, 36
Took me almost 2 hours, though much of that was spent petting a dog who wouldn’t let me type because belly rubs were essential. Found GAWKILY early, but couldn’t connect. MAGICAL, GARLICKY, MAGICK, sadly GORBLIMY wasn’t an option. But kept coming back to GAWKILY.
Finally saw MICROBLOG, thought, nah, too few letters used up, then went what the heck. Popped it in and started cracking up, so OA and GAWKILY in the same instant, but prefer efficiency of OA. Phew. Commiserations, Kanishk, hon, and congrats, RF!!
Interestingly, Alice Y Liang says there are no two word solutions – first time I’ve seen that!
She needs to import Wiktionary’s English word set, like I did. 😉
NUR
IKA
DCG
SQE
Hint: Sticky situation (9, 6)
Q _ _ _ K _ _ _ D – D _ _ G _ _
Q _ _ _ K _ _ _ D – D _ _ G _ R
😉
QUICKSAND – DANGER.
Correct, RF!! Congrats!! 🥳
QUICKSAND – DANGER
Garbage. Glad I didn’t waste much time on this one.
Took a while but OA as soon as I got MICROBLOG
OA after trying words ending in WAY such as CRAWLWAY and LOCKWAY (not accepted). Walkway worked but pointless.
Oddly MACROBLOG GAWKILY didn’t work and turns out MACROBLOG is a Federal Reserve site.
That got me thinking, and a quick inspection of the code reveals that besides MACRO itself there are only five others with that prefix that LB accepted today:
MACROALGA, MACROALGAL, MACROGLIA, MACROGLIAL, MACROGOL
interesting. MACROLOGICAL is also a word that should be accepted.
*”Logic and Language,” 1953.
OA after not too long. Got Gawky first and since I was playing with Microbial, Microblog came reasonably quickly.
Same with me! I’m usually a way longer solver than the regulars on here, but today was less than two minutes. Nice to have an easy solve for once!
Found Microbial quickly but, alas, no word with which to partner it. I have never heard the word Microblog. Interestingly, there is no such word as macroblog. Oh, the inconsistencies of language.