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Sides of this Letter Box are:
SHIFURYEOCLM
The answers are:
CHROMIUMMYSELF
I love the OA, but I love my answer even more: MIRCH – HOUSEFLY immediately.
I was delighted that Mirch was accepted (“mirch” means chilli in Indian English). Loving the efficiency!
I expect to see a plethora of solutions today. This past week has had a lot of great puzzles, with plenty of possible alternatives – keep it up, Sam!
Irim and RF, hoping to see your solutions soon!
Brilliantly done, hon!
Slightly less efficient here as I didn’t even think of MIRCH – I don’t think of it as being used in English at all, especially American English – so I went with the slightly less efficient SMIRCH-HOUSEFLY. Was gutted that EMULSIFY wasn’t possible, because CHORE was right there. Also CHYMOUS, RIFLES, FIREHOUSE, FLUORESCE (-S, -R), etc.
Waiting for RF to complete the triumvirate! Good luck, everyone, and happy Thursday!
MICROFICHES SOULY. Where in the rules does it say “efficiency” is best? I think using longer words is best!
To each their own 😉
OA. In 13 minutes.
Love your solutions my besties.
Yay!!! The triumvirate did it again!!! 👏
Woohoo, *high fives all around*!
Adrian, I hear you – I just love me a 13/2 solution!
Lyceum microfiches
Annoyed myself by being unable to find a pair despite finding housefly/flies, microfiche and lecherously – all of which looked very promising.
CHROMOSOMES SOULIFY. odd but it worked
Chloroforms seriously
HUMF – FEROCIOUSLY
(But HUMF only accepted in UK Scrabble)