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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ILUATEYZNQGM
The answers are:
GLAZEEQUANIMITY
QUANTIZING GAMELY
Same
Same!
Same
QUANTIZING – GAMELY
The courage of one’s constrictions.
Same here!
Same. Long before I saw OA, but maybe because I’m a big fan of getting the worst – and most – letters out of the way first.
OA
Same here.
QUANTIZING GAMELY
was my solution too.
GLAZE-EQUANIMITY
OA – what happens to the eyes when the mind is serene…
OA.
Yep, that’s where I ended up. Get rid of the Z and Q and see what’s left…
Same here
I also found quantizing – gamely
Same.
Same, found QUANTIZE for my first word, but took some time to realize I had to put an ING on it.
Ssme here. Quantizing Gamely, despite having no idea how to do it or even what it is.
Glaze Equanimity. Always happy to not use -ize words and a whole day ahead not puzzling! Such a love- hate relationship!
I have a similar preference for not using S as the linker. Not today of course, but in general. If I have to, well Ok, but it’s usually more challenging to find a pair without it.
OA, and agree with you both about using trite solutions, but only as a matter of principle. In real life I tend to get OCD over stuff like these puzzles, and the sooner I get them out of my head, the better! When an answer appears out of nowhere in a few seconds, especially if I happen to be looking at it right before I’m trying to get to sleep, I don’t have to deal with them letters swimming around my head when I shut my eyes. Uh-oh, I said “swimming”. Now here it comes… “Baby Shark… “
Doo doo da doo da doo!
Noooooo! That’s now my ear worm for the day…..
I have no such scruples, I’ll take the first LB in 2 that I can see!
Me too. Sooner it’s done, the better. Nice quick OA today.
Precisely! OA and reasonably fast…happy to have the rest of the day free.
Oh, most definitely! LEGITIMIZE – EQUANIMITY. Oddly, I had GLAZE beforehand so I could have come up with the shorter solution if I’d rethought things, but as you say – bird in hand!
LEGITIMIZE – EQUANIMITY
I do like the effusiveness of using as many letters as possible! Frequently (like today) good words go unused bc the letters are side by side, leaving the word unusable. So I like to go with the abundance.
Ditto!
Hear, hear!!
Agree
OA
OA
OA
OA. Staying shiny under pressure.
OA.
GLAZE-EQUANIMITY
QUANTIZING-GAMELY
QUANTIZING-GENTLEMANLY
LEGITIMIZE-EQUANIMITY
QUANTIZING-GENTLEMANLY is really good.
ELEGIZE – EQUANIMITY is another.
ELEGANTIZE-EQUANIMITY
ELEGIZE-EQUANIMITY
*AMALGAMIZE-EQUANIMITY
*AMALGAMIZE good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary
Quantizing gentlemanly
QUANTIZING / GENTLEMANLY too.
Me three.
ILU—ATE—YZN—QGM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QUANTIZING—GAMELY
QUANTIZING—GENTLEMANLY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GLAZE—EQUANIMITY
LEGITIMIZE—EQUANIMITY
Not OA. Not 2 words. But the fastest I have ever solved. Was probably 20 seconds but it felt like 15.
QUAINTLY YUM MAGAZINE
Speed and 3 words is a win, for sure!
quantizing, gamely
After a long struggle trying to make ‘legitimizing’ work.
GLAZE EQUANIMITY
ELEGIZE EQUANIMITY
ELEGANTIZE EQUANIMITY
QUANTIZING GAMELY
QUANTIZING GENTLEMANLY
Saw equal legitimize and stuck with legitimize to get equanimity.
Nice and quick, my husband still has the mini crossword and Connections to go and I’m sat twiddling my thumbs now
And twiddling smugly, I bet!
glaze – equanimity
OA
Quantum melanizing
Oops no y!
QUANTIZING — GENTLEMANLY
Played with MANAGEMENT, QUANTUM, AMAZINGLY, and UNGENTLEMANLY. Not the first time that I had to back off a prefix or suffix to pair a word. Lots of -ZING words today I suspect.
Quantizing gamely
OA, and my fastest solve thus far.
Nothing will top the one word solve I got almost instantly awhile back ( lexigraph, maybe?) but this was a relief after a string of frustrating days!
LEXICOGRAPHY perhaps?
QUANTIZING GENTLEMANLY too
UNEQUAL LEGITIMIZING(LY)*
Clearly a stretch, but it does appear in various legitimate books I found online.
Also tried MAGAZINING* (OED)
And had QUALM MAGAZINEY but couldn’t think of a third word with the remaining T.
QUALM—MAGAZINEY—YAUTIA
Quantizing – Gamely
Mark, thank you for that! I also just figured out if I use MAGAZINE instead, I can add ENMITY. Not as cool as YAUTIA tho.
Wow, ‘enmity’, what a word! I think ENTITY would work in that triple too.
FWIW Qualming is a word according to LB, but there’s no match for that either.
Ant man,Giant Man, and Aqua man reporting for duty today
In our ANTI QUANTUM GAME this TIME are NINE MAIZE colored GIANT AQUA IGUANA.
This is a lot of fun, Bill!
And Animal man too
This QUAINT GENTLEMAN is now IMAGINING IGUANAs.Your MANAGEMENT of todays array is AMAZING.My attempts are INELEGANT and LAME(at least not LAZILY done) but the UNIQUE players of LB grant EQUAL TIME in a spirit of MAGNANIMITY and even EQUANIMITY as we plumb the MINUTIA of the daily letter QUAG GAMELY and MINGLE our efforts
Awesome LB short story!
Thanks
The best part of the day. Thanks.
OA quickly.
Looks like like I got the popular non-OA with quatizing – gamely, not too bad today!
LEGITIMIZE / EQUANIMITY
QUANTIZING – GYMEL*
but LB would not accept GYMEL so had to go for QUANTIZING – GAMELY… rather quick solution today
OA today
LEGITIMIZE—EQUANIMITY
I have a TI, but I’m sure some would find it too political
OA earlier. But when I got ready to post, I got sidetracked by all the creative solutions here!
LEGITIMIZE EQUANIMITY, but OA is better