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Sides of this Letter Box are:
ERTHDPLUOFCW
The answers are:
PRODUCTTWELFTH
PRODUCT—TWELFTH (oa)
⨯(1/12)
COPRODUCT^—TWELFTH
^MW: by-product.
I’m surprised it wasn’t in OED.
Product-theft-towel
(Hotel issues)
Also found some groups (world, crowd, people)
PRODUCT — TWELFTH
Spent a lot of time with COPRODUCT and COPRODUCED (neither of which is accepted by LB,
I think the words with a CO- prefix have been removed from the LB dictionary, like their cousins ANTI-, NON-, MIS-, etc. 😐
Interesting observation. Maybe UN as well. I’ll keep an eye out moving forward.
I think the “Excluded Categories” are now up to:
Proper names (exceptions: kleenex, xerox,..)
Abbreviations, even if in mainstream use
Vulgarities, obscenities
Highly technical
Variants of much more common originals
Negations (un, anti, non, and the like)
Not kleenex. There was another one, like Xerox, that I can’t recall at the moment. It was a brand name that become a regular word.
Chapstick
I was able to type in XEROX so I think the brands that have become generic terms are accepted. I would like to try others (POPSICLE, for example) to see.
Glad I quit early with PROWLED DUCT THEFT. My first guess was another 3w: WEFT TORCHED DUPLE. Was surprised Dupled wasn’t allowed. I don’t think I was close to solving today’s 2w.
similar PROWLED- DUTCH-HEFT.
has it become permissable to stop after a threebie solution 🤭?
Had to settle for a 3 worder: CURFEW WORLD DEPTH.
FOP PROWLED DUTCH — cheap date
CURFEW WHELPED DOT — strict matron
OA for me. Something about chickens or bakers.