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Sides of this Letter Box are:
HUPIERSAYFLG
The answers are:
FISHEYEEARPLUG
GARFISHES-SLURPY
PRAISEFUL-LAUGHY
FISHEYE-EARPLUG
SPEARFISHES-*SPLURGY
*SPLURGY good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble US (TWL)
I tried to pair SPEARFISH(ES) but failed.
I also thought spearfishes – splurgy should pass.
Also found SPEARFISH(ES), EARPLUG(S), FISHY, PEARLY/PEARLISH, EARLY/ISH, HYPE, FUGUE, didn’t catch FISHEYE 🙁
Yup …longer than expected!
Same
Same. Laughy?
Me too. I don’t like it, but it put me out of my misery!
Got that too. Pretty goofy words but hey – it took them. Hmm …
A day or two late, but PRAISEFUL-LAUGHY was what I got. Took a long time as there were a lot of words in this grid. I liked SPEARFISH(ES), FRUGAL, etc but couldn’t pair them.
Me too
GARFISHES – SLURPY as well.
PARFILAGES-SLUSHY
I broke out of my three day slump with
FISHEYE EARPLUG(S).
Me,too!
Garfishes – Slurpy, too!
GARFISHES-SLURPY
Thanks, I’ll pass. Sounds like something Bucky the cat of Get Fuzzy would serve up.
OA Fisheye Earplug for me. A Zippy moment, while we’re on the Comics page.
PRAISEFUL-LAUGHY taffy has chewy, fruity goodness!!
GARFISHES-SLURPY… mmmm, 7-Eleven has a new flavor!
GARFISHES – SLURPY
A sustainable product: Supply will always exceed demand.
😆 Mvua and This 🤣
FISHEYE-EARPLUG here. focuses the silence into the canal
HUP—IER—SAY—FLG
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FISHEYE—EARPLUG(S)
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PRAISEFUL—LAUGHY
SHIPFUL°—LARGELY
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FISHSPEAR°⁻—RAGULY
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FRUGS—SHIPSHAPELY°⁻
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° OED
⁻ hyphenated
ARGUSFISH^—HELPLY°
ARGUSFISH^—HYPSIPYLE⁺
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^MW, °OED, ⁺ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsipyle
Haha , tried shipful largely; should have looked it up. At least plagueship was unique today
fuselages sharpy
I did that too, but It’s incomplete. So added third word YIP
Yours is my favorite solution today!
LAUGHY – PRAISEFUL
Oops I meant the other way around
YEARFULS-SHAGPILE
Nice!
Well done. I had the unconnected ‘shagpile fury’ which is fun, smacks of carpet wars but didn’t see your ‘yearfuls’. Good one.
As usual, I know this won’t be OA, which I’m not going to check, so as to play more but GARFISHES SPLURGY MW , OED. and garfishes sleepily in many dictionaries SLURPILY
PRAISEFUL — LAUGHY
Couldn’t see a pair for FUSELAGES, FURFURAL, PIPEFISHES, GARFISHES, FISHEYES, HIGHLIFE, or FRAGILEY
OA. Lots of compound words in the solutions to these puzzles. I saw EARPLUG first and noticed FISH, but spent too much time looking for a word like G****FISH before noticing FISHEYE.
OA as well.
Finally came up with OA after coming up with GARFISHES, but missed SPLURGY (new word for me), and also had PRAISEFUL but missed LAUGHY (again, new word). I need to go back to my 10th grade english teacher with some vocab questions now… Did also find SHIPLAP, SHIPSHAPE, and SPEARFISH without pairs. ALIOW!
Wasted a lot of time with paralegals and fuselages but did find garfishes and slurpy eventually.
garfishes-slurpy
Fisheye/Earplug
FISHEYE / EARPLUG in a couple of minutes today.
Same here! FISHEYE – EARPLUG
Fisheye/earplug within a couple minutes.
You guys are good!
All I could come up with was a very lame
SUGARFISHES* SPRYLY
* per Wikipedia another name for cusk-eel
Yelps sugarfish* Person who fishes for compliments,annoyingly
So many nowadays. Lol
👍
Plagueships (OED) surfy four odd solves and still no OA , I bet, should be a few more.
SHIPLAP – PUGS – SURFY, ie the vibe/decor at my nonexistent beach house.
I found FRAGILE and PLUSHY (all letters, no connect) and SPEARFISH – HAULAGE (no Y).
Praiseful Laughy. On a roll this week! Keep it coming, LB!
PRAISEFUL / LAUGHY
I couldn’t connect today. I finally quit at PLAGUE – EARLYISH, with an unused ‘F’.
I had seen FISHY and EARPLUGS but they can’t connect. I didn’t see FISHEYE ! LOL
Fisheyes – Sugarlips*
*From my imaginings
ARGUSFISHES* – SHAPELY
GARFISHES – SPLURGY*
could not come with OA or another fully-accepted-by-LB solution… oh well…
Spearfishes splurgy(OED)