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Sides of this Letter Box are:
RXNAOFHTCEPI
The answers are:
FRANCOPHONEEXIT
PONTIFICATE – EXHORT
PONTIFICATE – EXHORT also.
Conclave plotline.
Took a loooooong time, but finally came up with PONTIFICATE-EXHORT. Came up with a ton of words along the way. If anyone wants to see them all…
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Same
Carhop – Pontifex
If the conclave is overtaken by a clown car?
An absolute ton of promising words today, but i ended up with honorificence and expat
Not very efficient:
PREFERENCE – EXHORTATION.
EUPHORIC-CONFRONTATION
meeting the love of ones life
(same # of letters as Radio 😊)
Way to go Steffie. 👍😉
Oops, realized above is not my solve at all as it doesn’t use letters in the array. It was EXOPHORIC-CONFRONTATION, which is less efficient than Radio 🤭
We knew what you meant!!! 🙂
But where’s the X? LOL
Same. Quickly for once
Yes! Love using as many letters as possible 🙂
PREFERENCE – EXHORTATION
Preaching to the choir.
FRANCOPHONE- EXONERATION. Found exoneration first; had i done francophone first, i’d like to think i’d see EXIT as the more parsimonious solution. 🙂
Hexacopter Refine
Same here. So many trips down the wrong path today.
Preference – Exhortation
21/2 Yay!!
This is only my 3rd time solving in 2 words.
Pontificate-Exhort.
Yay!
Same.
FIXATION – NECROTROPH (plant pathogen that kills host cells and then feeds on the nutrients released from the dead tissues). Yummy fixation 😉
Also found
EXONERATION
PACIFICATION
–TROPH(IC)
PREFIXATION / NECROTROPH here.
And, as is my wont recently, I overcomplicated with REFIXATION – NECROTROPHIC! I was just hung up on the OPHIC ending since all I needed was PHC .. Would have been easier I’d just moved the P to the first word!
Same here– tried Necrotroph to see if it was a word. Learn something new every day.
FIRETRAP—PHOTOEXCITATION
PHOTOEXCITATION—NITRIFICATION
PORTFIRE—EXHANCE°
Pacificate exhortation
CARHOP PREFIXATION
CARHOP – PONTIFEX
A very neat and elegant answer, PK. As for me, I found the OA Francophone Exit immediately and stopped looking, struck by its relevance. So great is the power of The Donald that even Québecois separatists thought twice!
Same with Carhop – Pontifex
CARHOP PREFIXATION
for me too!
Found PREFIXATION right away. Took me a while to come up with CARHOP, but I finally got there.
Same here
Carhop – pontifex
I usually give it a few minutes, maybe a little longer if I think I’m close to something. There were a couple of nice solutions so far today (it’s early), but when the OA is something I never would have gotten without help, I don’t feel so bad about bailing.
Francophone Exotic. I’m surprised francophone worked, it’s too close to proper noun.
Ditto.
Carhop-pontifex
pontificate exhort
Also!
Pontificate-exhort
FRAP-PHOTOEXCITATION
FRANCOPHONE EXHONERATION
FRANCOPHONE EXPATRIOT
FRANCOPHONE EXPAT
FRANCOPHONE EXPATRIATION
HONORIFICENCE EXPATRIATION
HONORIFICENCE EXPATRIATE
Not Expat – no I.
Still, good job Amanda. I needed francophone to pair with exportation extirpation enterotoxin exterior exotic exit and excitation and didn’t see it
And extrication exhortation excoriation-darn!, could have pulled off a “Richie”today
prophet-toxification
Interesting LB today with all the possible -tion ending words
PHOTOEXCITATION — NONCONFERENCE
Rare instance of LB accepting the NON- prefix.
Bill D., you’ll like this:prefixation- the process of adding a prefix to a word to create a new word. Heca-100, so hecaprefixation added prefix to create new word which uses ALL letters. Fun
Nice!
WOW!
Phototoxic- certification
I went with Pontificate Exhortation…
But with UK political news, I really wanted:
Exhortation Nonpacification*
Photoexcitation + nerf (which I was surprised was accepted)
Also carhop + pontifex
fixer – rhapontic
good medicine
HEXACOPTER – REFINE
Prophet toxification
Prophetic- Confixation (OED)
PONTIFICATE – EXHORT
Preference exhortation for me
PREFIXATION-NECROTROPH
Same here. So many trips down the wrong path today. Reference – exhortation.
PHOTOTAXIC – CONIFER
Although Letter Boxed did not accept phototaxic. Perfectly fine biological term – describes an organism’s behavior of orienting itself and moving toward or away from a light source. Combining it with CONIFER made it extra botanical.
PREFERENCE / EXHORTATION
3 word answer, because I’m too stubborn to give up on
Exportation .
Haircare
Exportation
Nerf (to catch the effing f!)
PREFINANCE* EXHORT
*MW
No OA, pontificate exhort/exhorter/exhortation
Preference exhortation
Carhop prefixation
Preconference(mw) exhortation
Prefinance(OED) exhort/exhorter/exhortation
PREHEAT – TOXIFICATION
Lots of time spent on EXONERATE, also EXCERPTION
francophone extricate / extrication
FRAP PHOTOEXCITATION
A struggle today.
Any Doctor Who fans?
RAXACORICOFA(LL)APATORIAN
OA. Was very surprised FRANCOPHONE worked, a total guess based on FRANCOPHILE. 🤷♂️