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Sides of this Letter Box are:
IEDBGAFNUTRO
The answers are:
FIREBRANDDUGOUT
DOUBTING – RAFTER
I think you mean DOUBTING – GRAFTER??
That’s what I got — so close to DOUBTING – GRIFTER, which would have been better.
That’s what I got too. DOUBTING GRAFTER
I also got DOUBTING GRAFTER. I didn’t waste much time for once!
I actually got mixed up, between the moment and solved and three seconds later when I posted.
It was meant to be DOUBTER – RAFTING
(Though I was disappointed that ‘doubting grifter’ was not to be.)
Grafter is a predecessor of grifter, in the ballpark anyway. If you should do a drawing of the sorry fellow I would enjoy seeing it.
Breadfruit tango
Yep, same here.
Not likely to get around to the official with such tempting affixes as -ATION and -ING.
I got DOUBTER – RAFTING
FIREBRAND DUGOUT
FRETBOARD-DURING
TURF – FINGERBOARD
TURF – FINGERBOARD here, as well, after failing to put to good use any of BOATING, FRAUD, FREON, OBDURATE, BINGO, FEATURING, DOUBTING, FRINGE, DAFT, BURGEON, ADRIFT, INDRAFT, INGRAFT, BURGONET, FAINTER, or BREADFRUIT (the latter of which was quite straightforward, as PG showcased).
When I’d found BEGRUDGING, I really thought I was closing in . . .
Being in constant pursuit of efficiency, I’d only go to words like BEGRUDGING as a last resort (with G repeated not once but twice). I usually explore words with sigle-use letters and duplicate ones when I feel it’s worth the bargain: BREADFRUIT is one example where, despite using R twice, you have nine out of ten unique letters & you’ve also shoehorned a difficult one (F in this instance) into the middle of one of the words..
I just didn’t insist on it enough & missed the easy follow-up.
I get and respect that, but it’s not so much a concern of mine. You don’t get gems like ‘NUCLEOSOMES—SOFRITO’ worrying about efficiency! ;^)
(in response to KP 6:22 PM) Agreed, but there’s no way you can actually work on them; they just come by -occasionally…
doubter refrigerant
fretboard during
BREADFRUIT TANGO
Love it!!
and
DOUBTER RAFTING
Me too…
Same as the remarkable Jill, Doubting Grafter. The doubting grafter slunk away,
unsure of how to stay and play
his conniving game of scammery,
without his missing grafter G.
Thank you Jill for your shimmering poetic contributions to this board.
Thanks Phil– (I actually solved with ‘doubter – rafting’ but my fingers transposed the suffixes.
Your quatrain is fun, and begs for an illustration.
Feard – Doubting
I had the same. Archaic usage or Fake Beard?
I love this play on fear and doubt,
(and seeing that the archaic ‘feard’ is accepted by the powers that be).
My final was Feard Doubting, which has some thematic integrity, however archaic, and at 13/2 ain’t too shabby. Also Breadfruit Tango (clearly code), Doubter Rafting (recipe for riparian disaster) and Doubting Grafter (ditto for botanical). Other unpaired finds: Tangerine, Outgoing, Fondue, Egret, Regret, Adrift, Begonia.
Long one . . . BENEFITING – GRADUATION
FRUITBEARING—GOURD
🍈🍉🥒
Thematic, but at the risk of being oxymoronic.
🙂
..or at least a redundancy.
Doubting Grafter
Further evidence of the weirdness of the word list: the puzzle accepted FINGERBOARD – DUT. Dut? Seriously?
Reply to DW: What’s Dut? Doubt would’ve followed Fingerboard too…
A DUT is a snug, wooly hat.
My new word of the day, and ’tis the season!
Up here we call them toques! 🇨🇦
I know– when I moved to Canada 7 years ago I fell in love with the toque, both word and thing.
I’m not sure where they call them ‘dut’– looking for a reference, but so far no luck.
Perhaps the word is only used in small region in the north of England?
I did find a slang definition. But I just don’t understand why the puzzle doesn’t use the Scrabble word list, which does not include dut.
Boudoir-Refrigeration
Where a lady keeps her cosmetics chilled.
It gets hot in the boudoir
DOUBTER – REFRAINING. Often welcome.
Same. Long but able to say ciao baby to the game.
Firebrand-doubting
Befog – Graduation
My answer was less concise: BENEFITING,GRADUATION
Boudoir Regrafting
Another long one – DAUBER – REFRIGERATION.
Quick one today, but will check back to see the ingenuity today on more thematic answers and of course, the new words (e.g. DUT – that’s a good one!)
There’s always one FIREBRAND in the DUGOUT ready to charge the mound after a brushback. 🤬⚾️🏟️
fingerboard – dut
BREADFRUIT TANGO
Begonia – afterguard
Had to look up afterguard
1: the sailors stationed on the poop or ‘after’ part of a ship
2: the decision-making members of a sailboat racing team usually including a helmsman, tactician, and navigator
FINGERBOARD DUET
Fingerboard/ duet!
I had Bodger and Refiguration
Doubter rafting
I couldn’t use refrigeration , turns out some of you did.
How about gingerbread? Can someone use it?
It’s fine with both REFRIGERATION and GINGERBREAD as far as I can see.
Another DOUBTING – GRAFTER here. 🤔
AFTERBURNING/GOD
Doubting Grafter. When you’re not sure why we work so hard?
afterburning god