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Sides of this Letter Box are:
IGHPLMNZAUXY
The answers are:
PHYLUMMAXIMIZING
Phylum Maximizing after “unmaximizing” glyph wasn’t accepted.
OA.
That’s exactly what I did!
(After also trying a lot, a LOT of words in between )
Exactly the same here
OA easier today.
OA immediately.
Phylum Maximizing
PHYLUM—MAXIMIZING
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half-solution:
UNMAXIMIZINGʷ—GLYPH
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pseudo-solution:
HYPNUM°—MAXIMALIZINGʷ
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° OED, ʷ Wiktionary
ʷ : hypnum (plural hypnums), Any member of the genus Hypnum of mosses.
*HYPNUM-MAXIMALIZING*
*HYPNUM good in Merriam-Webster
*MAXIMALIZING good in Merriam-Webster
PHYLUM-MAXIMIZING
*UNMAXIMIZING-GLYPH
*UNMAXIMIZING good in Wiktionary
PHYLUM-MAXIMIZING after trying MINIMALIZING and a few others.
Let’s broaden those categories!
To those who remember: King Philip Came Over From Geneva Switzerland
Ha! The one I use: Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup (D stands for Domain)
I was in school before it became a big thing in 1990, so we started with Kingdom…love yours – and good soup is a thing!
OA. King Philip Catches Otters For Girl Scouts.
Pretty quick OA. I learned it as King Philip came over from Great Spain.
OA – I had to look up the King Philip thing, never heard of it and I was a biology major!
Quick OA
Phylum Maximizing
… grow a backbone
PHYLUM – MAXIMIZING
ahead of the class
Phylum Maximizing
Quick OA today
Oa
OA-quickly
OA in five minutes.
Only variation I could think of is MAXIMALIZING.
Unmaximizing(W) glyph. Will look more
Phylum maximizing. Will look still more but at least that’s one that’s LB acceptable
OA after trying MAXIMALIZING