Letter Boxed June 22, 2024 Answers

TRICKLE EPIPHANY

TRIPHENYL°—LACK 13/2
TELEPATHIC—CRINKLY Haggis, the Witch, in Pumpkinhead.
TRIPITAKA°—ACENAPHTHYLENE° 23/2

°OED:
triphenyl-, comb. form. A prefix denoting that three phenyl groups, C₆H₅, are substituted for three hydrogen atoms in the substance designated by the rest of the name; e.g…

Tripitaka, n. Usually with the. The sacred canon of (Theravada) Buddhism, originally written in the Pali language; a book containing these texts.

acenaphthylene, n. A crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon found in coal tar and tobacco smoke. Cf. acenaphthene, n.

I bent the rules a little with the proper name Tripitaka. I’m starting to like the OED though. More solutions. 🙂 I’m working on a macro that pulls these definitions from that section in the HTML. 🤓 Onwards and upwards, LBers!

telepathic – crinkly

TELEPATHIC — CRINKLY

ENCEPHALITIC — CRINKLY

TELENCEPHALIC — CRINKLY

Played around with CALIPHATE, TRINKETRY, and couldn’t mate RHINENCEPHALIC

TELEPATHIC CRINKLY

Looks like we still need that spit-take emoji. 😀

Hey McBee, thanks for that name site link. Looks informative.

I think it was CR (apologies if I’m incorrect) that pointed out that Sam Ezersky stated, on the X platform, that LB pulls from OED. If words are deemed offensive, they’re excluded. Perhaps the exclusions extend to technical terms too, like the chemical names, and the like.

Here’s some superscripted characters that are usable, in clear text:
¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰⁻⁺. Unless the superscripted M and W can be found somewhere in Unicode, I believe it would take code to produce them. The HTML approach would be: “word”MW. That would produce a superscripted MW over the “word”. This site does not support that however. 🙁 There are other methods used in formatting mathematical equations (LaTex).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

A slow TRICKLE finally leading to an EPIPHANY!

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 – 18 acrylate / enkephalin
2 – 19 anaphylactic / cricket
3 – 19 anaphylactic / crinkle
4 – 22 anaphylactic / cricketana
5 – 20 anaphylactic / crickety
6 – 19 anaphylactic / crickle
7 – 20 anencephalic / crickety
8 – 16 apathetic / crinkly
9 – 14 aphetic / crinkly
10 – 19 caprylate / enkephalin
11 – 16 crinkle / epiphytal
12 – 18 encephalic / crickety
13 – 19 encephalitic / crinkly
14 – 18 encephalitic / cankry
15 – 20 encephalitic / crickety
16 – 15 epilithic / cankry
17 – 14 hepatic / crinkly
18 – 16 kelpie / ethacrynic
19 – 18 naphthalic / crickety
20 – 17 naphthenic / crinkly
21 – 15 pathetic / crinkly
22 – 17 philatelic / crinkly
23 – 16 philatelic / cankry
24 – 14 phyletic / cankry
25 – 18 phyletic / cricketana
26 – 20 picketline / ethacrynic
27 – 16 pickle / ethacrynic
28 – 16 pricket / thylacine
29 – 17 prickle / ethacrynic
30 – 17 telepathic / crinkly
31 – 16 telepathic / cankry
32 – 15 trickle / epiphany
33 – 22 cricketana / anaphylactic
34 – 21 cricketana / anencephaly
35 – 18 cricketana / acalypha
36 – 24 cricketana / acenaphthylene
37 – 18 cricketana / acephaly
38 – 16 cricketana / alphyl
39 – 18 nephelinitic / cankry
40 – 16 peckle / ethacrynic
41 – 17 phenylacetic / crick
42 – 19 phenylacetic / cricket
43 – 19 phenylacetic / crinkle
44 – 19 phenylacetic / crinkly
45 – 18 phenylacetic / cankry
46 – 22 phenylacetic / cricketana
47 – 20 phenylacetic / crickety
48 – 19 phenylacetic / crickle
49 – 17 phenylacetic / crink
50 – 18 phenylic / cricketana
51 – 16 phylactic / crinkle
52 – 19 phylactic / cricketana
53 – 16 phylic / cricketana
54 – 16 pinkle / ethacrynic
55 – 20 platycephalic / crinkle
56 – 20 platycephalic / crinkly
57 – 19 platycephalic / cankry
58 – 23 platycephalic / cricketana
59 – 18 platycephalic / crink
60 – 16 platyrhinian / neck
61 – 20 platyrhinian / necklace
62 – 19 platyrhinian / necklet
63 – 20 platyrhinian / neckline
64 – 19 platyrhinian / necktie
65 – 18 platyrhinian / nickel
66 – 20 platyrhinian / nickelic
67 – 18 platyrhinian / nacket
68 – 21 platyrhinian / nickelian
69 – 21 platyrhinian / nickeline
70 – 21 platyrhinian / nickelite
71 – 18 platyrhinian / nickey
72 – 17 pricklet / thylacine
73 – 17 prinkle / ethacrynic
74 – 17 prinkle / ethicality
75 – 19 prinkle / ethylacetate
76 – 22 rhinencephalic / crickety
77 – 20 telencephalic / crinkly
78 – 19 telencephalic / cankry
79 – 21 telencephalic / crickety
80 – 19 telepathetic / crinkly
81 – 18 telepathetic / cankry

82 – 19 acrylate / enkephaline*
83 – 19 anaphylactic / crickey*
84 – 20 caprylate / enkephaline*
85 – 18 crinkle / epiphytical*
86 – 19 encephalitic / crickey*
87 – 22 enkephaline* / electricity
88 – 16 epitaphic* / crinkly
89 – 15 kelyphitic* / cairn
90 – 16 kelyphitic* / cairny*
91 – 18 kelyphitic* / cancrine*
92 – 17 kelyphitic* / caprine
93 – 19 kelyphitic* / circinate
94 – 21 kelyphitic* / circinately*
95 – 16 kelyphitic* / crinal
96 – 17 kelyphitic* / crinate*
97 – 17 kelyphitic* / cyprian*
98 – 19 kephalic* / circinately*
99 – 14 klephtic* / cairny*
100 – 19 klephtic* / circinately*
101 – 15 klephtic* / cyprian*
102 – 16 nacket / triphylite*
103 – 17 naphthalic / crickey*
104 – 17 nephritical* / lackey
105 – 17 nephritical* / lankly
106 – 23 rhinencephala* / alkalinity
107 – 20 telencephalic / crickey*
108 – 20 tripitaka* / anencephaly