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Sides of this Letter Box are:
HNAMOLITBSUF
The answers are:
FASHIONISTAALBUM
OUTLAIN—NUMBFISH, then
FASHIONISTA—ALBUM, the OA
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NUMBFISH made me laugh, until I looked it up: “As the name suggests, they are electric, providing a numbing jolt of up to 200 volts if agitated. . .” Yikes!
OUTLAIN NUMBFISH for me
OA
Me too. Fashionista came to me over breakfast, then it was solved
OA. Took a couple of tries, though relatively a fast solution today
Word Play:
(_ _ _ _ _ing) (_o_ _)
Clue: ‘a body of water’
Swimming pool
Swimming pool.
Bernie Patootie, correct! 😉👍
Brilliant!!!
swimming pond?
Swimming hole?
OA in (my) record time
OA a souvenir from this week’s Fashion Week in Milan!
Good point, Steph!
OA… part 4 of the 7 pronged plan to insta-has-been:
1. Influencer channel
2. Sex tape
3. Reality show
4. Pop record
5. Oversaturation
6. Obscurity
7. Masked singer
🤣
OA here
The OA makes me think of the amazing album by Jimmy James. Fashionista was the opening track.
Thanks for the recommendation, Stripe!
OA. And It took only all day (I left and returned to it maybe five times.) And got three, three word solves earlier:
FASHION NUMB BLUNT
FOUL LAMBAST THIN
FLAUNT THUMBS SOIL
OA, basically right off. Decent TI as well.
Same here, Judy!
Instinct said first word would start with F
Tried flashbulb(s) but didn’t get anywhere.
Then quickly got OA.
Flashbulb is an excellent find! Pairs with Botulinum, FWIW.
Yes, I got FLASHBULB–BOLTULINUM, but went back for more because 1) even the OA couldn’t be that obscure (so there must be other answers), and 2) it’s a Sunday. Soon found OUTLAIN–NUMBFISH.
FLASHBULB / BOTULINUM today
Same here, except for the “quickly” part. I struggled with FLASHBULB(S) for far too long. Then switched to FASHION, then FASHIONISTAS, and then finally landed on FASHIONISTA.
Same here. Flashbulb jumped right out but I couldn’t budge from there. Lost my mind a bit with Fashionista – Albumin. Haha. Couldn’t see a good thing when it was handed to me
BOTULISMS – SALTFISH 🇯🇲 🚑
OA
This is wonderful, DW!
That’s a good one! And a reminder to not eat at that restaurant again! 😆
Dw thanks for this i spent a lot of time with saltfish but could not find the match
I will just note the seldom-seen Numbat has finally made an appearance, to my delight! Sadly, it couldn’t find a mate.
Well Bernie once i saw numbats there was no looking back. It does unofficially pair with SOULFISH which is a new age symbol and bumper sticker for being all you can be spiritually. But a much better symbol might be the numbat itself,if you ask me, without all the christian fish baggage
OA, today was easy, done in a few minutes.
FLASHBULBS—STAMNOI*
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Very beholden to FLASHBULBS so Ty for STAMNOI (looking it up now!)
I had to look it up as well. It turns out it’s the plural of Stamnos:
An ancient Greek wine jar with a wide mouth and with handles set horizontally on the shoulders.
Since both words were plural, perhaps I should have posted: 📸📸🏺🏺
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OA today.
OA
OA. As soon as I got it I knew that had to be the OA! But I do like the other solutions! Definitely giving me new words to add.
Would never come up with fashionista, alas! Couldn’t find a pair with numbfish, congrats to those who did. Got it in three:
Fishtails-slums-snob
Working with tabouli a while and then saw fashionista and the rest is history.
fashionista – album
OA. Found Albumin so looked for something ending in an A… the rest played out well.
BLAM / MAFIOSAS / SHUNT
ALBUMS / SOFT / THIN
MALATHION -NUMBFISH after quite a bit of searching and trying new words.
Malathion: a synthetic organophosphorus compound that is used as an insecticide and is relatively harmless to plants and other animals.
OA, but went over an hour. Fashionista came to me after fruitless efforts with fashion/fashions. Even when I found Fashionista I used it plural and was hopin “slumb” was a word. 😂
Had a lot of words: saltfish, albums,
alumni, aluminum, outlasts, fountains,
sailfish, outflash, bunions, unionists,
Took me awhile to make the leap from fashion to fashionista too. Then got stuck trying to find some kind of ending with ambul- before realizing album was right there. OA for me.
ALBUM did not come to me, but I didn’t give it a lot of time. Settled on
FASHIONISTAS – SOUL – LAMB (their personal assistant)
It would have if you didn’t put the S on fashionista. As soon as I took the S off, boom!
Took ages but I got the OA in the end.
Had lots if words but they didn’t want to play nice together. After ALBUMIN I found the OA finally.
In the meantime:
FILOSIFISTS
FATALISTS FLAIL ABOUT THIS N’ THAT,
NIHILISTS SIT IT OUT, MOUTHS SHUT.
HUMANISTS TOAST HUMANS, FAULTS N’ ALL,
MINIMALISTS ABSTAIN, AND FLAUNT IT.
FLIM FLAM FILTH BOAST BUT FINISH LAST.
Human/Humanist don’t work, but good list regardless
It’s poetry (sort of), not lb.
Oh, my bad
Here is the full list including Scrabble words:
** Don’t look at the list if you haven’t finished solving the puzzle **
(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)
1 – 16 fashionista / album
2 – 17 fashionista / albums
3 – 18 fashionista / albumin
4 – 19 fashionista / albumins
5 – 18 flashbulb / botulinum
6 – 19 flashbulb / botulinums
7 – 17 malathion / numbfish
8 – 18 numbfish / histoblast
9 – 19 numbfish / histoblasts
10 – 18 botulinums / sailfish
11 – 18 botulinums / saltfish
12 – 17 absinthium / milfoil
13 – 18 absinthium / milfoils
14 – 15 outlain / numbfish
15 – 17 boatlift / thumbnuts*
16 – 17 fabulism* / malathion
17 – 18 fabulism* / malathions*
18 – 16 fabulisms* / stonish*
19 – 17 flashbulbs / stamnoi*
20 – 16 mailshots / snubfin*
21 – 17 malathions* / snubfin*
22 – 16 nonmutual* / lubfish*
23 – 14 talion* / numbfish
Tried FABULIST/S but did not think of FABULISM
I was so bummed that fabulists didn’t work. The OA took all day…disappointed that it wasn’t very original…