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Sides of this Letter Box are:
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The answers are:
GENUFLECTIONNAIVE
And yet another theological opportunity missed, though it would have been a while before I saw ‘genuflection’
FUNCTIONAL-LAVAGE here in minutes, with functional just being the first word that worked on this irimtating array.
RF and Kanishk, can’t wait to see you here!
Good luck, everyone, and happy Hump Day.
Miss Irim my solution for today is a difference in one letter from yours for I got FUNCTIONAL – LOVAGE. Took me so long today. I kept coming back to FUNCTIONAL until I found LOVAGE.
Kanishk-boy, come join us!
VEGAN -NONFUNCTIONAL
Functional – Lavage here as well.
Guano
Olfactive
VEGAN / NONFUNCTIONAL
GUANO—OLFACTIVE
Solutions, in a grouping attempt. Experimental.
FACTITIVE — EUGENOL, OLFACTIVE — EUGENOL
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LANUGO — OLFACTIVE
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VAG — GENUFLECTION
GENUFLECTION — NAV
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FUGUE — EVECTIONAL
LEGUAN — NONFACTIVE
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FUNCTIONAL — LAVAGE
FUNCTIONAL — LOVAGE
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GENUFLECTION —
NAV, NAVE, NOVA, NAIVE , NAVAL, NAVEL, NOVIA, NOVELA, NOVENA, NONACTIVE, NOVOLAC, NANOVOLT, NOVITIAL, NONFACTIVE
CALCIFUGE — EVECTION, — EVICTION
NONFACTIVE — ECLOGUE, — EUGENOL, — EUGLENA
NONFUNCTIONAL — LAVAGE, — LOVAGE
VEGAN — NONFUNCTIONAL
VIOLOGEN — NONFUNCTIONAL
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CALCIFUGE — EVECTIONAL
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Some half-solutions:
OLFACTIVE—EGUNʷ
FIVE—ECTOGENUALʷ
VEGA—AFUNCTIONALʷ
LOGFILEʷ—EVACUANT
VACUFUGEʷ—ELECTION
VENEFICIALʷ—LOGOUT
GLOVE—EUFUNCTIONALʷ
NAILGUNʷ—NONFACTIVE
VEGA—ANTIFUNCTIONALʷ
ANTILOG—GENUFLECTIVEʷ
NONFUNCTIONAL—LAVAGEʷ
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pseudo-solution:
VOLCANOGLACIALʷ—LACTIFUGEʷ
FACTIVE-EUGENOL
GUANO-OLFACTIVE
VAG-GENUFLECTION
FUNCTIONAL-LOVAGE
LEGUAN-NONFACTIVE
VEGAN-NONFUNCTIONAL
NONFACTIVE-EUGLENA
LANUGO-OLFACTIVE
GENUFLECTION-NAV
CALCIFUGE-EVICTION
FUNCTIONAL-LAVAGE
GENUFLECTION-NONFACTIVE
NONFUNCTIONAL-LOVAGE
FUGUE-EVECTIONAL
VIOLOGEN-NONFUNCTIONAL
GENUFLECTION-NOVA
CALCIFUGE-EVECTION
NONFACTIVE-ECLOGUE
GENUFLECTION-NAVE
OLFACTIVE-EUGENOL
OLFACTIVE-EUGLENA
GENUFLECTION-NOVIA
NONFUNCTIONAL-LAVAGE
GENUFLECTION-NANOVOLT
NONFACTIVE-EUGENOL
GENUFLECTION-NOVOLAC
CALCIFUGE-EVECTIONAL
GENUFLECTION-NAVAL
FUGUE-EVECTIONAL
GENUFLECTION-NAIVE
+ANTIFACTUAL-LOVAGE
+WIK
*GENEVA-ANTIFUNCTIONAL+
*OED, +WIK
#”VICTUALAGE-ENFIO+
#SCR, “COL, +WIK
NONFUNCTIONAL-LEGAVI+
+WIK
*VOAG-GENUFLECTIVE+
*OED, +WIK
^NONFACTUAL-LIVEGEN+
^MW, +WIK
NONFACTIVE-EUGLENA^
^MW
*FUGLE-EVECTIONAL
*OED
GENUFLECTION + NAVEL for me. I should have remembered NAVE from my crossword puzzle days.
FUNCTIONAL LOVAGE. Nice to see herbs being useful.
Functional Lavage. A little different
Functional — Lovage here, as well
GENUFLECTION -NAV
VEGAN-NONFUNCTIONAL
Same
FUNCTIONAL LAVAGE… although LOVAGE is much nicer.
Genuflection nave . Nice TI . I’ll bet Irim,at least. Is familiar with this.
And also FUGUES and GENTLE VOICEs
Genuflectional love/life/lovelife
FUNCTIONAL-LAVAGE
ANTIFICTIVE* ECLOGUE
*niche literary term —
“Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self” 1975
“American Literature and Language” 1982
FUNCTIONAL LAVAGE
Genuflection Nave
Zip for me today.
How I missed Genuflection is beyond me. I cannot remember not knowing that word.
GENUFLECTION NAVE.
Functional Lovage