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Sides of this Letter Box are:
XIGTVCUNARJE
The answers are:
JIVEEXCRUCIATING
JUVIE EXTRICATING
Same, and I’m outta here!
Run Mvua Run
…like the wind blows, Richie.
Stroking another check to the bail bondsman.
OA
Nice and easy!
Same and same!
Same here.
JUVIE-EXECRATING – young kids hating jail!
Making bail 👍
Yes. What young criminals are planning on New Orleans.
Same Louisa (JUVIE – EXTRICATING), although I liked INJURE, JUICE and JINX to make use of the J…
I don’t think INJURE is allowed as R and E are in the same side.
Another Juvie Extricating. What’s that, Lassie? Timmy fell down the well again? I’ll go fetch the ropes and grappling hooks.
Same. Struggled with JUICE and then took a flier on JUVIE.
Juvie — Excruciating. Not quite as efficient as the OA, but a solve nonetheless.
It was an EXCRUCIATING journey to finally arrive at today’s OA; and that’s no JIVE.
Shawshank Redemption Jr.
Juvie-Extricating here as well.
El sameo
Same
Same.
Same… Juvie – Extricating
Same.
TI: a teen who doesn’t want to get in trouble decides to leave a bad situation
One more for the JUVIE-EXTRICATING team. Let’s get them outta there!
JIVE-EXCRUCIATING
Same here
JUVIE-EXTRACTING
JUVIE-EXECRATING
JARVIE*-EXECUTING
JARVIE* good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*JURATIVE-EXCITING
*JURATIVE good in OED, Wiktionary
*JURATIVE-EXCAVATING
*JURATIVE good in OED, Wiktionary
*JURATE-EXCAVATING
*JURATE good in OED, Wiktionary
If your not into the whole brevity thing, this is what you get.
I spent too much time trying to match EXCAVATING, I thought it would be part of OA. Good for you Richie!
I did eventually get the OA.
No luck for me today. I saw EXCAVATING right away and spent most of my time trying to pair it. I did see JIVE and JIVING but not EXCRUCIATING. 🙁
Tried Extracting but C & T are constrained.
JIVE—EXCRUCIATING
JURATIVE°—EXCITING
JURATIVE°—EXECUTING
EXCAVATING—GUJARATIⁿ
ⁿ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gujarati
😉 🙂
😁
Hey Mark! You were able to match EXCAVATING too (like Richie). You guys are too good.
Me too, but they won’t accept gujurati. ☹️
As a Gujarati, I approve this solve!❤️
Except that Gujarati is a proper noun …
I had a team in India located in that state (Baroda). Good times! 🙂
OA
JIVE / EXCRUCIATING as well.
juvie-extricating
JIVE – EXCRUCIATING.
Solved it in first attempt. Just like yesterday’s DUMPER – RAINBOW.
WOW you are on a roll. That is super!
I am jealous of you … or is it envious?? Either way you know what i mean. LOL
😉🤗
JUICE – EXTRAVAGATING*
First time in eons that I have actually woken up and contributed a solution to what has already been posted. I suppose that’s the downside to machine generation: one rarely gets to play.
I hear you, DW. Every day I see something I enjoyed in my world change. Makes me recall in my youth we called folks like me dinosaurs 🙁
At least you got something new! OA here. With nothing to beat Luke’s theme 🕺🏻 😃
Same feeling here.
Heard that, DW.
Here’s one the ‘bots (probably) missed: JUICE–EXTRAGENITIVE*
* I knew I’d come across this word, but wasn’t surprised to have it rejected. Scrabble, too, has no knowledge. It’s a term specific to the field of linguistics, so I would have learned it about 20 years ago.
Great word! You learn something new every day ☺️
OA,
So easy today.
OA for me, the look I would be going for were I ever to compete on Strictly Come Dancing.
Preceded by the unacceptable and already mentioned:
Juice extravagating (think that should have been accepted, they’re both words!)
Excavating gujarati (ok, this is more of a proper name, fair cop)
Oa. Took me en embarrassing amount of time.
Another JUVIE EXTRICATING.
It won’t let me post. Another JUVIE EXTRICATING.
OA. Thought it would be but the upside is it materialized quickly–especially welcome after a stretch of no solves.
Juvie – Extricating
TRIJUGATE* – EXCAVATING
*Merriam Webster accepts it (“The meaning of TRIJUGATE is having three pairs of leaflets.”)
JUICE — EXTRAVAGATING* All dictionaries accept ETRAVAGATING but LB does not 🙁
Looked at EXECRATIVE but could not link either E.
JUVIE EXCRUCIATING (as are those hep 50s JD movies.)
Another JUVIE – EXTRICATING. Got hung up on EXCAVATING first because it seemed too good to pass up. Then switched to JUVIE and thought EXTRACTING solved it, only to find the C and T on the same side. 🤦♂️ Started looking for EXTRA~ words, which led to EXTRICATING and then back to JUVIE. Phew.
JIVE / EXCRUCIATING
Same
My first solve was JUICE – EXTRAVAGATING*.
Favorite 3w solve:
INJURING-GRAVITATE-EXCITE, a description of my brain strenuously working on LB and finally stumbling upon a solution.
Jive excruciating. I see some others I tried would’ve worked except LB didn’t take and I never checked.
Went through lots, saw guide and thought aha! But alas didn’t see extravasating. Saw GAIJIN thought aha! again but noooooo! Finally saw excruciating. I really like extragenitive . Saw both parts but didn’t know that word
*juice extravagating.
One word fun.EXECUJIVEART. Skillful white collar trash talk
😂 Love it.
OA today! Got hung up on Juice- Excavating (no R) and then Excruciating (no V), and then finally incorporated the v into jive and matched with excruciating. Yay!
jive – excruciating
JUVIE EXECRATING
JUVIE-EXCRICATING at the last minute!