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Sides of this Letter Box are:
OSCREINMXHAL
The answers are:
CHRONICLEEXAMS
CHRONIC—CLIMAXES
MONARCHIC—CLIMAXES
MONARCHS-SILEX
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CHROMINANCES—SILEX
MACHINE EXCELSIOR
machine – excelsior, here too
Excelsior Ranchman
Same!
Oops! Meant to post “same” here. (MACHINE – EXCELSIOR)
Same!
CLIMAXES – SHORN
I think there may be a pairing with Horseman too.
Same here, climaxes-shorn
Climaxes Shorn
Yup
Same here. A nice efficient solution.
Me too!
Armhole-excision
Me too
ACHRONISMS-SILEX
I went with Climaxes Shorn. The director left a lot of eXXXciting footage on the cutting-room floor.
Then I fell into the symmetrical Manhole Exorcism Manhole. Heh heh, I fell into the Manhole… a Freudian Slip and Fall!
The OA seems oddly humdrum.
CLIMAXES SHORN
Likewise.
Same… bald & ribald.
Me too
Same,sadly
Same here… second try. Fastest ever for me!
Same! We think it’s the shortest one?
CLIMAXES SHORN
CLIMAXES SHOEHORN(S)
with minimal effort today.
CLIMAXES-SHORN
MANHOLE-EXORCISM
climaxes-shorn
MARCHES-SILOXANE
MENARCHES-SILOXANE
MANHOLE-EXCELSIOR
MANHOLE-EXORCISE
Same. Works both ways.
Oops. That’s Manhole — Exorcism
MANHOLE / EXORCISM here…
EXARCHS-SEMOLINA
MONARCHS-SILEX
MONARCHIC-CLIMAXES
CHROMINANCE-EXILES
chrominance – exiles as well
MICROMACHINES-SILEX
Outstanding.
Thanks!
CLIMES-SAXHORN
*ARCHNEMESIS-SILOXANE
*ARCHNEMESIS good in Merriam-Webster but not LB
*MICROINCHES-SILOXANE
*MICROINCHES good in OED, Merriam-Webster and Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
CROMLECHS-SILOXANE
ARMHOLE-EXCISION
ARMHOLE-EXCISION
ANACHRONISMS-SILOXANE
EXORCISM ⇄ MANHOLE
MANHOLE ⇆ EXORCISM
MANHOLE EXORCISE
Same
Anachronisms Silex
Same here. Feel like I’m cheating sticking in a word like SILEX that seems vaguely familiar and then having to look it up to see if it is actually a real word.
It sounded familiar to me relating to coffee. Found this description: Silex 1940s vacuum coffee maker. I’m not familiar with the generic meaning myself.
We had several Proctor Silex appliances growing up in the 1960s, including a toaster, blender, and coffee maker. I had never heard of the building material until I looked it up.
Same here
Old rock?
CLIMAXES-SHOEHORN
The non-PG TI writes itself.
Well tell me what you all think. One giant asterisk today. LOXA ( a shield bug) ARCHNEMESIS (not sure why not acceptable unless it is a hyphen thing).
….new character in the Marvel franchise….?
Armhole Excision
ARMHOLE – EXCISEMAN
Textile tax.
Sleeve levy.
Gap VAT.
CHROMINANCE—EXILES
Camomiles saxhorn
CARAMELISES—SAXHORN
MICROMOLES—SAXHORN
MONARCH – HELIXES*
EXCELSIOR — RANCHMAN
Couldn’t do much with HEXANE, and MEXICAN was not allowed.
Same here. How much more fun with lots of promising leads and many good answers. 👏
Climaxes- Shorn
Climaxes- Saxhorn.
MENARCHE – EXCELSIOR. Coming of age.
And a rare unique solution.
Climaxes shorn quickly after a minute on maximises
Helixor romances helixor is a mistletoe extract used in oncology so love between the terribly afflicted
CHRONICLE – EXAMINES
Quickest one I’ve solved yet!
Charms siloxane
MACHINE – EXCELSIOR
I saw excelsior in other answers but not this combo yet.
Relatively quick OA. With some pretty strong TI given that I CHRONICLE EXAMS every day in the charts of all my patients.
CHROMIOLE* – EXAMINES then CHRONICLE – EXAMS
Whaaaat?? MEXICAN is not a word?? Looks like Trump got his finger on LB… LOL
Another MACHINE-EXCELSIOR here. I had hopes for AMOXICILIN but then remembered it has a double L.
Micromachine excels
EXORCISM MANHOLE
Also LEXISM* MONARCH
EXILISM* MARCHION* (both obscure and archaic)
EXORCISM – MANHOLE
Monarchise exile
Same. Exorcism -manhole
So many 2s, I’m embarrassed to post my quick 3, but it’s fun for Simpsons fans:
HOAXES
SARCASM
MONORAIL.
I did Anachronism-Minihelix 🙂
Hard fought OA for me today