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Sides of this Letter Box are:
GCIRUTNHWEZL
The answers are:
WINTERIZINGGULCH
OA
OA.
Yep… put some salt in the stream, to make sure the ice doesn’t get too slick when the freeze comes.
OA.
OA. Took a few minutes. Was obvious it was going to be an -IZING ending. Just a matter of finding the root.
I couldn’t do it in 2, today. I had Lunching-Glitzier-Rew to use the W leftover.
OA, fairly quickly
Same. I think that makes 5 out of the last 6 where I land on the OA. That is fairly odd for me. Unless the solutions are one-offs.
WINTERIZING / GULCH
Yup!
OA quick as a wink.
OA
WINTERIZING — GULCH
Found CRETINIZING and GENTILIZING* before seeing WINTER and WINTERIZING. GULCH was right there.
Yes, OA.
Was glad to find it so I wouldn’t have to use cretinizing – which felt a bit creepy.
cannot believe dealing with subzero temperatures took so long to see OA.
couldn’t let go of CHINTZIER GLITZIER RITZIER
Those are all great Z words!
Same!
Same here! First day this week we’ve been out of subzero temps this week, but I couldn’t find any ~IZING words and got hung up on GLITZIER instead. Smiled when I finally spotted WINTERIZE and GULCH was obvious in the leftovers. 4th OA in a row!
WINTERIZING – GULCH
Filling in the gaps.
OA,
Toyed around with EUNUCHIZING briefly, which is in Merriam-Webster and OED but not in LB
Takes us back to the excellent Frostbite Eunuch solution from last week or the week before!
OA again today, suspect it’s a one-off. Winterizing Gulch is on the agenda at the Snowmakers’ Summit.
OA First two words, right off the bat.
I do struggle with -izing words (not from US)…but I thought I’d share a three because I was interested to see Zilch is accepted and made this sweet phrase about an up and coming sport: zilch hunting grew
OA right off the bat. Fun week so far.
Isn’t the Zilch an endangered species?
Not quite, but they are Definitely hard to see with the naked eye.
It’s a deadly yet beautiful pastime.
Love it!
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Glad I stopped at CHEWING-GLITZIER (no U). WINTERIZE is not a real word, in my view, and I have never heard of GULCH. Sounds like something out of Dr Seuss. 🤔
Aha. Turns out both words are North American, according to the dictionary, (and a gulch is a gully). Which is why this Brit failed!
OA, in the Deep South, where we speak sort of old English, we use the word gully also, and don’t do much winterizing
Except for VERY RECENTLY.
And we are ill-prepared for it
You have a friend in Alabama.
I sympathise! (Sympathize?) Doggone those doggone zees.
Quick OA. Throwing cotton candy in a slot canyon.
Wicked Fast (for all you New Englanders) – and easy for RV owners who go through the ritual of anti-freeze each year 🙂
OA And very quickly today!
winterizing – gulch
GLUNCH – HEWER – RITZ (15)
OA in 2-3 minutes
WINCE ETHERIZING GLUE
Really like Gutwrenching but didnt scan.
It’s a deadly yet beautiful sport.
Winterizing/ Glunch
Who’da thunk
Well, not me, obviously! Whoever ever heard of such a thing? So much for my one-off prediction.
WINTERIZING/GULCH – Took me a while!
OA
BTW, there were a bunch of -ing words that it’d have taken -ingly for if there’d been
a y and that it should’ve alternatively taken -inglier for but didn’t. Just something I noticed.
I’m ashamed to say I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the word “winterizing” before.
The best I could do was in 3.
WITCHING GLITZIER RECUE
OA but it was a withering, wrenching twitcher that made me cringe, I thought I had zilch
OA.
i didn’t start until almost time for the new LB puzzle.
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