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Sides of this Letter Box are:
SLCWIJYGANOK
The answers are:
SKYJACKINGGLOW
OA in seconds
Same. Started with JACKING which left me with GLOWY with a stray S. Figuring out where the S would fit came to me instantly.
Yup!
OA Today!
Happy Raksha Bandhan!
OA here as well. Was surprised Jackings wasn’t accepted. Took me quite awhile to finally stick SKY onto JACKING and then the finish came right away.
Same here
Same to you SFCHICK,from the older brother of two sisters.
🤗
SKYJACKING GLOW(S)
Fooled around with CAJOLING and LOCKJAW first.
OA, but also got COWLINGS-SKYJACK.
LOWS / SKYJACKING here.
SKYJACKING—GLOW
COWLINGS—SKYJACK
SYNANGIAL°—LOCKJAW
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SKYJACKINGS° ⇄ SAWLOGS
SAWLOGS ⇆ SKYJACKINGS°
AJOWANS—SICKLYING°
LOCKJAWS°—SYNCING
Lockjaws – Singly
and singingly
Ironically I saw lockjaw but didn’t think it could be plural.
Interesting – it didn’t accept LOCKJAWS for me. It said ‘not in word list’
But LB wasn’t accepting lockjaws as plural.
OA somewhat surprisingly…
Also tried JACKALING
YOGINIS
JOWLY
JOCKS
SWANGILY
SYNCING
Many here list solutions LB doesn’t accept, but are accepted in other Dictionaries. Lockjaws was accepted in OED
(Oxford English Dictionary). There are several other Dictionary sources too. Often a symbol next to the solution word indicates, or a reference is directly made, as to the source
I use this notation for my contributions:
° OED, ^ MW, *PSW, ʷ Wiktionary,
ⁿ proper name, ⁻ hyphenated,
† other 🙂
Which of those is Scrabble, if any? I use Scrabble and also Dictionary.com. Occasionally looked at the Urban Dictionary too.
@Bruce, * was the traditional symbol for a Playable Scrabble Word (PSW). Others now use * for general exceptional cases.
I should check out Dictionary.com and Urban Dictionary. Thanks.
Scrabble has two word authorities for tournament play. One is Scrabble US (TWL) for tournament play in the US, Canada, and Thailand. The other is Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) for the rest of the world. The latter has been officially changed to CSW (Collins Scrabble Words), but everyone still calls it SOWPODS.
I was more than a little irritated that LB didn’t accept SKYJACKINGS, but I have to admit, when I backed off the S, GLOW was right there. This isn’t the first time that backing off a plural has yielded a solve, so maybe LB was doing me a favor? 🙂
I started with Cajoling and found other words that didn’t connect. Then I tried Cowlings which immediately led to Skyjack for a win. It was only then that I realized Skyjacking and Glow was probably the OA. Good weekend to all!
OWLINGS SKYJACK
With unnecessary C:
COWLINGS – SKYJACK.
OWLINGS-SKYJACK
SAWLOGS-SKYJACKING
*LOCKJAWS-SYNCING
*LOCKJAWS good in OED
*SKYJACKINGS-SOWL*
*SKYJACKINGS good in OED
*SOWL good in OED
JACKSY-YOWLING
I also tried Lockjaws but it wasn’t accepted
COWLICKS-SKYJACKING
*JACKLINGS-SOWYN*
*JACKLINGS good in Collins, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*SOWYN good in OED
*LOCKJAWS-SOAKINGLY*
*LOCKJAWS good in OED, Wiktionary, Scrabble US (TWL)
*SOAKINGLY good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
Same with me: COWLICKS – SKYJACKING
AJOWANS-SICKLYING*
*SICKLYING good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
*CAJOLINGS-SKWYN*
*CAJOLINGS good in OED, Wiktionary
*SKWYN good in OED
Oa
LOWS SKYJACKING pretty quickly.
Same, though not that quickly.
lows – skyjacking
Same though took 15 minutes so not esp. quick, but happy anyway.
Lows – Skyjacking
LOCKJAWS* – SINGLY.
Found SKY, JACK, SKYJACK, SKYJACKING, and GLOW was right there.
Also so JACKALING, JOINING, and LOCKJAW.
The delightfully efficient JACKSY-YOWLING. Perfect.
SKYJACKING – GLOW
high crime
OA 😃
OA fairly quickly
Hey y’all, for fun, solve this one-HMO NIA TSR ZCE. No programs please. Just post “I got it” when you solve and enjoy.
Almost a one-word solve with leftover ‘M’:
CHARACTERIZATIONS – SAME.
Great job Radioactive Flower! I was beginning to think no one would try it . The OA is MISCHARACTERIZATION, for a rare one word solve
I saw that long word , reading last night ( it stood out for its length even though it is common) and thought hmm….
I put a clue in with “solve this ONE”
Oh! I was close to the OA. 😊🤗👍
Thanks! Sir Bill, I was close to the OA! Yay! 😊🤗👍
Excellent! The fact that it is really long (19 letters) adds to the difficulty, since you can use multiple letters over again. I have played around with 12 letter one-word solves, but they are certainly limited in number. I didn’t think about longer words.
RF — You got really close!! 🙂
Skyjacking glow
Same. Took a while. Don’t know why
OA fairly quickly, nice change after yesterday’s all day wipeout, ha!
Two 2w’s today SKYJACKING GLOW or LOWS SKYJACKING.
OA today
LOWS SKYJACKING
and
JOCKS SKYWALK KING
(Skywalking is in the Urban Dictionary but not any others I could find, but it’s the title of a book about George Lucas.)
Me too on jocks sky walking Simon. Describes David Thompson,Tom Chambers, Julius Erving, and todays Mac McClung
True that. Air time!
SKYWALK was accepted I guess because it’s a noun.
Jacksy yowling
JACKSY(??!!!) / YOWLiNG
Neither sicklying nor lockjaws is on the word list.
OA, but took a while until I noticed SKY to add onto JACK(ING)
OA fairly quickly
cowlings-skyjack