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Sides of this Letter Box are:
XMASTOBLEINR
The answers are:
ABALONEEXTREMISM
Extremism mobilisation
Hopefully not a portent for 2026!
SEXIER—REMOBILISATION
🙂
Mobilization Sexier
SLIME – EXORBITANT
Same. Merry Xmas.
BONERS—SEXSATIONALISM
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🌲🎅🎁
Now I’m very disappointed in myself for not finding that one
It is pretty brilliant!
BROME – EXTENSIONAL.
Don’t like this solution. Will look for another solution.
BOXERS – SENSATIONALISM.
Wow! Nice!
This was my answer as well. Shouldn’t have taken nearly as long as it did, but LB not accepting EXERTIONAL or EXTRAORBITAL which are both definitely words, slowed the process down.
Ombre extensional
more efficient ABALONE-EXTREMIS
Slime exorbitant
Same here, after working on EXTREMISM, LABORANT, EMBOLISMS, and TRANSNATIONALISM.
Embroils Sextant…
degrees of difficulty
Same here
Ditto! Merry Christmas All!
Merry Christmas!
Had to cross the pond for mobilisers sextant.
*BONEMEALS-SIXTER*
*BONEMEALS good in Scrabble US (TWL), Wiktionary
*SIXTER good in OED
Exonerate embolism
ABALONE EXTREMITIES
Not as efficient as OA but I found extremities first and was just happy to solve it quickly
Same here.
NORMIES – SALTBOX
Love that the first four letters of the grid spell out ‘XMAS’. Good one, Sam!
Instead of just getting one solution, I decided to keep going and find others, since there were a lot of possibilities with today’s letters. Also found REMOBILISATION – NOX and BROME – EXTENSIONAL
REMOBILISATION NOX here, FINALLY!
Rationalises. Sexbomb.
!!!
Saw that as well… and nice solve!
Anyone else notice the XMAS at the top?
EMBROILS SEXTANT also
And LIMBATE* EXERTIONS or EXONERATIONS
*MW and Scrabble
Yeah, and if I ignore the LB rules, I also see Stable, Babe, Oxen, Tree, etc.
Boxers-Sentimental for me. I remember that kinda fun book report in 6th grade that was on the life of Joe Louis.
Boxers — Sentimental
And of course we noticed XMAS!!
Merry, merry!
boxers sentimental
ANATEXIS* SEMIARBOREAL*
*both in MW
Also
EXORBITANT TIMBALS
EXONERATE EMBOLIES* MW
EMBOLISE* EXTRANET *OED
Membrane Extensional
Right off the top….XMAS!
Memorabilia anxieties very quickly but oddly , found memorabilia first after a few quick “x” attempts . I see Santa today. And also SAM when read right to left
Trombone extensional
Same-nice visual.
Abalone extremities
Sexboat – Trailmen*
🤪
Yay! An original solution. I had no idea sexboat would take, but I thought it could be a hedonism cruise. lol
SEXBOAT-TRANSNATIONALISM would work.
Limbate(MW,OED) exertions
Abalone extremis
Extranational ( usually hyphenated) limbs
Metabolite exertions
Antimetabolites sexier
Antimetabolite exertions
Membrane extensional
Remobilisation(left only X!) next
Mixer remobilisation
Boxer remobilisation
Texter/sexter remobilisation
RATIONALS-SEXBOMB
Sixer/sexier remobilisation
Antimetabolites sixer /sarx(W)
EXTREMES – SIBILATION
Smile/simile/slime exorbitant. Thought I was done, then thought of those in the shower
L and E are on the same side
Oops, just noted that myself, going back to exorbitant
RATIONALS-SEXBOMB
Mobilise exorbitant
Boxier remobilisation
NALTREXONE EMBOLISATION
Oddly Embolise was not accepted but Embolisation was.
ABALONE-EXTREMITIES.
I was just happy to find something immediately
after the longest dry spell I’ve had in over a year.
EXORBITAL* LIMNS
*OED
Mobilise Exoneration
METABOLISE-EXERTION
Abalone extremities
OXIMETERS – SIBILANT