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Sides of this Letter Box are:
PTUNIOHDBZEM
The answers are:
UNZIPPHOTOBOMBED
Official
UNZIP PHOTOED DUMB
official -fast
(nothing like yesterday)
Threw in the towel in this one -just as I did a couple of days ago. It’s been quite a harrowing week in more ways than one, not least Letter-Boxed-wise. Words I went through were thin on the ground, too: UNZIP (that I wouldn’t have paired in a million years), ZOMBIED (mystified as to how it was even accepted), BOUND, HOUND, and POUND that got me absolutely nowhere. Kudos to anyone that got or is to get that over the line.
Sorry for your troubles, Sota. I hope things improve for you. I do wonder how Zombied gets the nod. Perhaps it’s a reference to doing the dance? “First we waltzed, then we zombied”? IS there a dance?
A rather trying week here as well. I had to put down my oldest cat on Monday, which is painful no matter how necessary. At least I was able to find a vet who comes to the house . Definitely worth the (substantial!) cost, and the “best” euthanization experience I’ve had of sooo many. As if the Christmastide isn’t a mournful enough season on its own…
Sorry to hear about your cat. 🙁 I agree about having a vet at the house, though. After experiencing that once, I can’t imagine doing it any other way.
Hope things improve for both of you! Sota, I was concerned the other day because you always have a letter boxed answer. I will hope that boring and relaxing and certainly not harrowing find you this weekend. Have a great weekend all!
I almost wish zombied was not accepted. Led to wasted time!
Agreed on both scores, Bernie! Good to keep in mind we make a decision our pets would be unable to make for themselves. The irony is that only last night I dreamt two of my late dogs were back around (was I being ZOMBIED right then?) and that we were miraculously joined by fifteen more dogs (that’s Three Dog Night x5) -such a strange and intense vision…
As for Christmas, well, I’m just a little less (is more) Mariah Carey away from feeling incalculably better!
That’s a lot of canine action, Sota! I am often visited by some of the fur-bearing Late Lamented, either in sleep or on the verge of it, or just out of the corner of my eye in some long-accustomed spot.
I find a good weeping fit to be highly restorative in this melancholy season – I think it’s chemical. Easily evoked for me by anything from The Velveteen Rabbit to The Dead, with an annual stop at A Christmas Carol – particularly the section with the mourning Cratchits, which generally gets cut from adaptations as too tough.
Sigh.
Sorry for your loss, Bernie.
I often think that one of the keenest measures of lives lived is through the many passings of our four-legged friends.
Same here. I’m taking a break…this is more vexing than fun for me lately.
Commiserations to you both. May the next week prove restorative!
Echoing hope of better for all.
Official. Another one-hit wonder today. For those who are as tired of them as I am, my commentary is contained in a 21/2 here:
RTL-AMU-SYN-GIO
On top of the exceptional lyricism, Jill apparently made the hard yards in regard to the riddle you made up, DW; UNANIMOUS – SINGULARITY is what’s happening, isn’t it (unless you feel MONOTONOUS is more to the point)?
I think I missed it– must be MONOTONOUS SINGULARITY for 21/2.
But we can at least claim to be unanimous in finding the singular solutions a bit monotonous.
Monotonous it is! Well done!
Official here today as well and fairly quickly (3 sips into the coffee). Sometimes the one-solution puzzles are easier, and sometimes, the word choices leave me flummoxed (e.g. AQUALUNG). But, overall, I appreciate the challenge and am impressed by those who come up with oodles of answers on the other days!
I hear you, SusanM!
Official answer here; Unzip came quickly and seemed inescapable, but Photobombed took a little while. I doubt there are other two-word possibilities, but I’d be very pleased to be proven wrong.
LOL Bernie – I got PHOTOBOMBED first, and had to pause to come up with UNZIP. Love seeing how people’s brains work 🙂
Official here too, although it took a little while.
Official today and blessedly quick. Yesterday was brutal though I got something eventually. Yeesh.
Official, but it took a while.
official
Totally stumped today.
I did not know photobomb was a word.
Now I’ll try DW’s puzzle.
Thanks, DW, for a much more satisfying and fruitful array.
I found ten pairs, and could have kept going.
Ode to the Weekend
An agronomist’s stylus
Charts a morningstar rurality,
Storying mingling grayouts
In glutinous similarity.
A youngling’s simitar
Surmounts sanguinarily
Our semantic mournings, solitary
Mornings, weekend langours
Aglint, timourously,
In unanimous singularity.
Will you marry me?
Closest I got was UNZIP PHOTOED DUMB – I was surprised Photoed was allowed, and I had also got BOMBED so how I missed Photobombed is a mystery! Thumped. Mounted. Bozo. Zip. Zit. Doubted. Podium. Phobe. (couldn’t do Zenophobe)