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Sides of this Letter Box are:
HZUIQTLPNCAE
The answers are:
QUETZALLINCHPIN
CHAPTALIZE—EQUINE
QUETZAL—LINCHPIN
CLINQUANT—TELEPATHIZE
QUINIC—CHAPTALIZE
QUININIC—CHAPTALIZE
Nice! Was really irritated I couldn’t finish Telepathize. Somehow managed to get the OA. Pulled Quetzal out of my backside. No idea what that word means. I’m about to look it up and find out. And really didn’t think that was how you spell Linchpin. But a win is a win.
Thanks! I liked it too. I don’t think I’ve ever used that form before though. Telepathy, telepathic, telepathically, yes, but not telepathize. 👍
Pretty much the same here, almost didn’t even bother with LINCHPIN spelled that way, and saw QUETZAL in the leftovers. Couldn’t really remember what it meant until I looked it up, just knew it sounded vaguely Aztec, but tried it and was surprised it was accepted.
I spent a long time on (UN)EQUALIZE and a couple of other likely suspects before my birdbrain took flight with
QUETZAL LINCHPIN
✅🐦⬛🐦
Yup ..very late OA
*CHILTEPINE-EQUALIZE
*CHILTEPINE good in Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary
CHAPTALIZE-EQINE
QUENCHANT-TELEPATHIZE
CHAPTALIZE-EQUILIN*
*EQUILIN good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary
When you get an answer and you know, that’s gotta be the OA.
Thats a good answer. Should have seen QUETZAL (my cat’s name) but got really stuck on EQUALIZE
TEQUILA
AQUILINE
ELEPHANT
ENCHANT
CHALAZA (CHALAZIA*)
darn the P!
Hard same, so it took me quite a while to see QUETZAL and then LINCHPIN.
Tried to make it work every which way with equalize.
OA, in far too long!
Me too with ELEPHANT.
You named your cat after a bird? I love naming pets after other animals. We had a cat named Pig. I also once knew someone who had a dog named Turtle.
Nice.
Oops, CHAPTALIZE-EQUINE
CHAPTALIZE-EQUIPIN*
*EQUIPIN good in Wiktionary
CHAPTALIZE-EQUANT
chaptalize – equant as well
QUETZAL-LUNCHLINEUP
Chaptalize Equine
Chaptalize Equine
Which evolved from backing into the first word (unknown to me) by cobbling together leftover letters while trying to pair equalize.
Well done you experts. I’d never have got this so pleased to bail out on three. Tantalize equip patch and I used the dreaded …ize suffix. The day will get better, I hope…maybe it will rain!
Good triple! ☕
Equalize elephant telepathic
CHAPTALIZE-EQUINE
TI: a toast to the triple crown winner! 🐎 🥂
or just get a horse drunk 😆
QUETZAL – LUNCHPAIL
Tastes like chicken.
Yes, that was me. Thought of LINCHPIN for a second, but would have spelled that with LY . . ., so didn’t even type it in.
OA in literally less than 10 seconds.
Fourth OA in a row
OA in 5 minutes (not 10 seconds, but still…)
CHAPTALIZE-EQUINE though I suspect that once the first word is found, there are many second words that will complete the solve.
Surprised chiptune wasn’t allowed.
CHIPTUNE-EQUALIZE would have been nice.
QUETZAL — LINCHPIN
Spent 30 minutes trying to get EQUALIZE or QUINZE to pair (both used up the Q and Z) but I find that there are way fewer words starting with E that I can readily think of! 🙂
I found Chaptalize – Equant for today after briefly trying to get Equalize to work. Happy Friday!
I went with OA, but had been feeling brave I would have tried Zequin Napthalenic. Our Miriam reckons they’re both valid…
Quatch Hazel lupine.
Equalize Epic Chant
Blew it today. Tried to match CINQUANT with TELEPATHIZE but no go. Only CINQUANTE is in use. That led to
TELEPATHIZE EQUIPATHIC.* But I could only find Equipathic used one time in an obscure book on Amazon natives by someone named Buchet.
Mark found CLINQUANT which is a word I did not know.,
Submitted
QUINCUNCIAL LET TELEPATHIZE
PETANQUE ETCH HAZELINE
OA in record time!
*PENTAZINC-CHILAQUILA*
*PENTAZINC good in Wiktionary
*CHILAQUILA good in Wiktionary
*QUINZENAL-LATCHPAN*
*QUINZENAL good in Wiktionary
*LATCHPAN good in Wiktionary
OA!!
Thought I had it with euthanize and then with punctuality but nope
Punctualize.
Tried epiphaniize cinephiles linchpin punchline palanquin incipient phthalate epaulet Chautauqua lunch pail leucine punctual eyhicize Phil nuchal what h lineup tuneup and others
Did see palanquin Natchez ( a Mississippi city and Native American tribe)