12:17 am
licketySplitAUS
Clues are up
12:17 am
marksdolly
thank you lickety!
12:20 am
dizgrannie
nbt/nbs...ja 8
12:22 am
SummerBreeze44
po7
12:45 am
jessmom
te7 x2/te8
1:24 am
dizgrannie
and FWs
5:56 am
ItalianGreyhound
just figured out theres a gerund - funner!
6:02 am
Scrabbler
Oh, TY, IG. I have not been liking this grid.
6:10 am
ItalianGreyhound
down to 44; need caffeine (sp?)
6:10 am
Scrabbler
Correct spelling.
6:20 am
ItalianGreyhound
Thank you
6:22 am
Scrabbler
I passed halfway and must get ready for work.
6:23 am
ItalianGreyhound
Bye Scrabs
6:44 am
ItalianGreyhound
listed to finish - The Js look like spicy words to me
6:52 am
Uneaixoise
Greetings from the Sweltering South!
7:03 am
ItalianGreyhound
mornin, Une!
7:04 am
ItalianGreyhound
I bet its hotter here :)
7:04 am
dauber
IG - is that a clue? :)
7:04 am
ItalianGreyhound
no clue, so to speak
7:06 am
ItalianGreyhound
gonna be 103 in the shade here today
7:37 am
HarryHood
remember wayne's world? schwing is in the grid
7:40 am
MollyL
Party time! Excellent!
7:41 am
HarryHood
40 to go, still no Js!
7:42 am
HarryHood
or, I just realized, Gs!
7:43 am
HarryHood
this is a gnotty problem
7:44 am
MollyL
The j's are weird
7:50 am
HarryHood
ah well. will try later. have a good day molly!
7:52 am
doseffing
... looks like the spanish version of the name of a flower which in English and French begins with "hy"
8:08 am
MollyL
Well that narrows it down
9:11 am
cybernan
a bright and happy good morning to you all :) (finally got some sleep last night - 10 hours!)
9:24 am
hurshy
it would be so great if someone would invent glass that never gets any smudges
9:26 am
hurshy
name that proper noun! careful block-removing game
9:27 am
hurshy
ding ding ding!!!
9:27 am
cybernan
still lookng for a word for the j
9:28 am
ChampFit
I'd never seen it before. Just looked it up, and it's a flower, ordinarily spelled with an H.
9:31 am
cybernan
ty champ
9:40 am
hurshy
woot, i got all the 8s!
9:41 am
ChampFit
Congrats! Just finished. Any clues before I go?
9:41 am
hurshy
well i'm short on G words, have a ga5 and 4 that are similar to each other
9:43 am
ChampFit
Go down and up...think vampires...
9:43 am
ChampFit
Down and up to the right.
9:44 am
hurshy
silly me, i tried the modern short version of that word and didn't notice that
9:44 am
ChampFit
There are two ga5/18's, btw. Same letters, just scramble around. Have a great day everyone!
9:45 am
hurshy
thanks champ, have a good day
9:48 am
cybernan
ty champ
9:49 am
cybernan
53, but then just started 30 min. ago
9:50 am
hurshy
Sevens Squashed!
9:50 am
cybernan
finding this one tough
9:50 am
cybernan
still need one 7 and 2 eights
9:50 am
hurshy
it is sort of an odd one
9:51 am
hurshy
phantom: sponge
9:52 am
penquis
hello all...
9:53 am
hurshy
many of the 7s have the same endING
9:53 am
penquis
hi hurs, molly, nan....
9:53 am
cybernan
good morning, pen
9:55 am
cybernan
c, ex2, g, j, n, s, tx2 --- missing 7 is?
9:57 am
penquis
too early for me to know...
9:57 am
cybernan
hurshy jus tsaid she had them all
9:58 am
cybernan
have ja and te 8 -- don't know what the last one there is either
9:58 am
penquis
i have an no 8....
10:00 am
cybernan
ty pen - looking
10:01 am
penquis
there is a po 7....
10:01 am
cybernan
got it, ty
10:03 am
cybernan
ty again - 7's and 8's done
10:04 am
penquis
nice....i am still working on them...
10:05 am
mael
got the Js once I knew they were flowers, how strange. It's much more similar to the Italian spelling
10:06 am
penquis
i think this spelling is a mineral....
10:07 am
mael
even weirder then! haha
10:07 am
mael
oh, the 7 is a mineral and the 8 is the flower
10:08 am
cybernan
only got it from the flower reference also
10:08 am
penquis
well it also says it's a color...
10:08 am
hurshy
sorry, i went off to play other games
10:08 am
penquis
the 8, i mean....
10:09 am
hurshy
the other 8 is no8
10:09 am
mael
the color of the flower, presumably :)
10:11 am
hurshy
oh pen took care of it
10:11 am
hokie carla
hmm, no topsy
10:11 am
hurshy
yeah i tried that too
10:11 am
cybernan
me three
10:12 am
cybernan
hunting down 4's -- still need 15 of them
10:12 am
mael
still missing the po7, hmm
10:13 am
penquis
i am missing 14 fours out of 43 left...
10:13 am
hurshy
it ends like many other 7s
10:13 am
hokie carla
I still have 108 left
10:14 am
KatieMcG
could I have a clue for the ec6/30 please
10:14 am
hurshy
it ends like a lot of the 7s
10:14 am
penquis
it's like the et 7 without the t....
10:15 am
cybernan
po 8: think of a spanish conquistador for the po 5,6,7
10:15 am
mael
can't seem to make anything with a gerund ending for the po7
10:15 am
doseffing
... or ... if the sound was coming back it would have an "o" in it
10:15 am
hokie carla
hmm, there's a gerund
10:15 am
mael
oh there it is, thanks. I was going under rather than over, I already had the 5/6
10:15 am
hurshy
the root of po7 is po5 de leone
10:15 am
doseffing
.to act like the po5 before it
10:16 am
cybernan
sorry that clue was for the po 7 --- there is no po 8
10:16 am
cybernan
I thought I sais that hurshy - just not as directly
10:16 am
hurshy
phantom: wench
10:17 am
hurshy
for some reason i am still sleepy and brain-foggy
10:17 am
MollyL
I got it from your clue Nan
10:18 am
cybernan
33 left -- need to get some breakfast befoere I lose whatever energy gains I made by getting a good sleep!
10:18 am
hurshy
ooh, Ws Whacked!
10:19 am
hurshy
are there any P words that are NOT po?
10:19 am
hokie carla
not psych
10:19 am
KatieMcG
thank you hurshy
10:19 am
hokie carla
or psyche, that's just a phantom
10:20 am
hurshy
coincidentally, i am wearing my Psych-O t-shirt today (fan of the show Psych, O made of a pineapple)
10:21 am
hurshy
ok so a P6 is my last word!
10:21 am
hurshy
something other than the plural of the 5 we were just talking about
10:22 am
hokie carla
I have one po6 but it's a pl so surely not it
10:22 am
hokie carla
haha
10:22 am
hokie carla
were you talking about it? I am ignoring clue talk
10:22 am
mael
I'm missing one P, must be that one
10:22 am
hurshy
yeah we were
10:23 am
penquis
i think you are missing po 6/30....
10:23 am
hurshy
ok i got it
10:23 am
hurshy
weird word
10:24 am
hurshy
one of the earliest computer games + freud's lowest of 3 parts of the psyche
10:24 am
mael
it's my last word too, still can't find it
10:24 am
mael
... but thank you hursh, there it is! FW
10:25 am
penquis
congrats...
10:25 am
KatieMcG
congrats
10:25 am
hokie carla
oh, that is weird. glad I paid attention to this
10:25 am
hokie carla
87 left!
10:26 am
hokie carla
anyone done the wonder woman NTPN?
10:27 am
penquis
gadot?...
10:28 am
MollyL
God, remember Po4? We thought it was the coolest thing in the world when it came out Now it seems so primitive.
10:28 am
hokie carla
I do remember it. We had one.
10:29 am
hokie carla
why can I only find one G? are these weird or I'm just not seeing things?
10:30 am
penquis
i only have two gs....
10:30 am
hokie carla
oho, found 2
10:31 am
penquis
now have four....i am missing a g 7....nan mentioned it...
10:31 am
hokie carla
I have a GO7 that's a pl
10:32 am
hokie carla
kinda unexpected pl, but I tried it
10:32 am
penquis
oh, ty....i have them all now...
10:32 am
penquis
the gs, i mean....still missing one 7...
10:32 am
hokie carla
still need 2 Gs
10:33 am
penquis
there are two ga 5s that use the same letters...
10:33 am
penquis
never seen them before...
10:34 am
hokie carla
thanks, have seen one of them before
10:35 am
penquis
one's a fish and the other is an Italian painter....go figure...
10:38 am
hokie carla
made it to the j and wishing I had paid attention when I got here
10:38 am
penquis
the two J words are related...
10:39 am
hokie carla
what are the stats?
10:40 am
hurshy
ja7/56 and ja8/75
10:40 am
penquis
ja 7/56 and ja 8/75...
10:40 am
hokie carla
oh dear. will go back to those later, thx.
10:43 am
MollyL
Name that proper noun....famous broadcaster Huntley
10:43 am
MollyL
Three dings for Une
10:44 am
Uneaixoise
Hee hee
10:44 am
hokie carla
somewhere I was reading female in that question 🤣
10:45 am
MollyL
Reading female?
10:45 am
hokie carla
I thought it asked for female broadcaster Huntley
10:45 am
hokie carla
and was then surprised at Chet
10:47 am
MollyL
No female broadcasters back in those days
10:48 am
hokie carla
I believe that
10:48 am
hokie carla
but you also didn't specify when he was famous
10:49 am
hokie carla
well, 21 left after first pass. 2 or less on each tile, but no HOET. will work on that J now.
10:53 am
MollyL
Famous is a retrospective word. If I wanted to specify, I would have specified when he was popular.
10:53 am
hokie carla
so, this guy is way before my time?
10:55 am
penquis
he was on air from 1956 to 1970....
10:56 am
hokie carla
yep, before I was born
10:57 am
hokie carla
looked up the J, 19 left
11:07 am
KatieMcG
fireworks
11:07 am
penquis
congrats...
11:07 am
hokie carla
well done
11:08 am
penquis
i am taking a break...bbl to finish...bye all....
11:08 am
hokie carla
bye pen. 14 left here.
11:11 am
bichon
go 6/30, pls
11:12 am
hokie carla
famous painting - american go6
11:12 am
bichon
tyvm carla
11:16 am
hokie carla
well 7 now - 1-3-3 - TT WW S C E
11:20 am
hokie carla
report back in 5 minutes
11:21 am
moolingwa
five minutes from when I typed ZOET, or five minutes from when you responded?
11:22 am
hokie carla
I am playing other games for a bit hoping the last 7 come to me when I look again
11:23 am
moolingwa
yeah, that's a good idea
11:23 am
moolingwa
I do that
11:23 am
moolingwa
39 to go
11:23 am
moolingwa
14-11-6-5-3
11:24 am
hokie carla
well, not as far as I thought you'd be but I am distracting you
11:25 am
moolingwa
26 to go
11:25 am
moolingwa
8-7-5-4-2
11:28 am
cybernan
breakfast over, deadheading done and still 32 to go
11:29 am
HarryHood
32 here as well
11:29 am
bichon
nan, you are fellow deadheader
11:29 am
moolingwa
hey nan
11:29 am
hokie carla
still 7
11:29 am
HarryHood
no Js found.
11:29 am
bichon
How about Japanese beetle killer
11:29 am
moolingwa
hey HH, been a while
11:29 am
hokie carla
I looked them up, harry
11:29 am
HarryHood
I have to deadhead the flowers out front. Wife pots them and then forgets about them.
11:29 am
HarryHood
hi mool!
11:30 am
HarryHood
you came back!
11:30 am
moolingwa
I did, I blame hoke
11:30 am
cybernan
had to laugh when I saw no female broadcasters back then --- had to think maybe no female anything in the future either
11:30 am
HarryHood
we all do, mool.
11:30 am
hokie carla
HH and moo both back 🥲. I'm verklempt.
11:31 am
hokie carla
found a word! 6
11:31 am
HarryHood
28 now. coffee helps
11:31 am
moolingwa
12...nothing helps really :)
11:32 am
moolingwa
and here I'm looking for w's, even though I've completed them...
11:32 am
hokie carla
lol, I still need 2!
11:32 am
moolingwa
probably the same as my last 2
11:32 am
hokie carla
ok, I'll take the stats...
11:33 am
moolingwa
only missed chuppah and hatha yesterday on bee...apparently they're more well known than the screes of other obscure words they don't accept
11:33 am
hokie carla
oh, I got chuppah.
11:33 am
moolingwa
I got captcha, which made me want to quit
11:34 am
hokie carla
missed attach, captcha, catchup, hatha, and tach
11:34 am
moolingwa
0-3-2-3-2
11:35 am
hokie carla
got the w's!
11:35 am
hokie carla
1-1-2
11:35 am
hokie carla
T S C E
11:35 am
moolingwa
wunderbar
11:35 am
cybernan
the we 5-6 are my missing w's -- clues please?
11:35 am
moolingwa
JJ S G T PP TT C
11:37 am
hokie carla
there's a guy named cyril we5, nan. no idea how I know that.
11:37 am
moolingwa
got the c
11:37 am
hokie carla
what was the c, moo?
11:37 am
cybernan
doesn't mean anything to me
11:37 am
moolingwa
cheap, or cheaply made, normally with a y on the end
11:38 am
hokie carla
just looked at today's bee, 4 pangrams and none of them jumped out at me.
11:38 am
moolingwa
sounds german nan
11:38 am
hokie carla
nan, the e is the only vowel
11:38 am
moolingwa
have 2 so far
11:38 am
hokie carla
thanks moo
11:39 am
hokie carla
did you play on sat with the 6 pangrams? somehow I found them all without really trying.
11:39 am
moolingwa
no, went away for the weekend
11:39 am
periwinkle
hi all. help with A in the corner please
11:39 am
HarryHood
phew. got the we5/6
11:40 am
moolingwa
9 here
11:40 am
cybernan
found - ty -- the german clue helped even though I don't really know any german
11:40 am
HarryHood
take in another's child, peri
11:40 am
periwinkle
62 here :(
11:40 am
moolingwa
hey peri
11:40 am
hokie carla
some people do this with kids/babies, peri, who need parents
11:40 am
HarryHood
I would say "rhymes with berthold"
11:41 am
hokie carla
3 - 1-1-1
11:41 am
periwinkle
ty for A words
11:41 am
moolingwa
9 = 0-3-1-3-2
11:42 am
hokie carla
found my 4. I swear I put that in already
11:42 am
hokie carla
now S and C, 5 and 6
11:42 am
hokie carla
not C, E
11:43 am
moolingwa
guessing the c is the 6
11:44 am
moolingwa
still 9 :)
11:44 am
hokie carla
go harry. go harry. go go go harry.
11:44 am
moolingwa
found a t
11:44 am
moolingwa
actually, both t's
11:46 am
hokie carla
NTPN - bicycle brand
11:47 am
HarryHood
schwinn
11:47 am
MollyL
Darn, beaten by a hood
11:47 am
HarryHood
story of your life, molly
11:50 am
HarryHood
woo just found my remaining Gs. 16 to go
11:50 am
hokie carla
still 2
11:50 am
hokie carla
NTPN - family guy character
11:50 am
cybernan
stats for the lone t please?
11:51 am
cybernan
nm - found
11:52 am
cybernan
you know there was a day (not all that long ago) that there was a much longer term in use for that.
11:53 am
hokie carla
what was it? -graphical error?
11:53 am
ch1212
what? Diagon isn't a word? Has Enable not read HP?! lol
11:54 am
cybernan
tried that one too
11:54 am
HarryHood
still missing 3 from the bottom E
11:55 am
hokie carla
I have 3 pairs of E's, so you are missing a pair and maybe the single I need
11:56 am
cybernan
missing a pair of e
11:56 am
hokie carla
do you have a single E nan, or is there a pair that's actually three?
11:56 am
cybernan
can clue the missing 6 if you like
11:57 am
hokie carla
what's the stat?
11:57 am
cybernan
ec 6/30
11:58 am
HarryHood
got it. ty nan
11:58 am
cybernan
I have drawing and nationality -- what am I missing
11:58 am
hokie carla
hmm, I was on the right track. kept thinking there was a word there.
11:58 am
hokie carla
morals, nan
11:58 am
HarryHood
nationality?
11:58 am
hokie carla
well, culture, etc
11:59 am
ch1212
do you have the 5/6 that Chidi taught along with moral philosphy?
11:59 am
HarryHood
oh! got them. ty
11:59 am
HarryHood
13 to go
11:59 am
cybernan
duh -ty --- don't know how i got the one and managed to miss the other
11:59 am
HarryHood
at some point I have to deal with these farshluggina Js.
12:00 pm
hokie carla
I feel like that happens to you every time, nan 🤣
12:00 pm
hokie carla
I looked them up, harry
12:00 pm
hokie carla
ends like a flower that starts with HY
12:00 pm
HarryHood
well, that was easy. ty carla
12:01 pm
HarryHood
9 to go! just finished the is
12:02 pm
hokie carla
S5 left
12:02 pm
HarryHood
which s?
12:03 pm
cybernan
missing one from each s
12:03 pm
HarryHood
Just finished the S's. 7 to go
12:04 pm
hokie carla
bottom S
12:04 pm
hokie carla
any SY?
12:04 pm
HarryHood
ends in two consonants
12:05 pm
HarryHood
5 to go 1-1-2-1
12:05 pm
HarryHood
0-1-1-2-1
12:05 pm
hokie carla
what's the stat? P&TY
12:05 pm
HarryHood
st5/12
12:06 pm
hokie carla
geez, thanks. TADA
12:06 pm
HarryHood
wtg carla
12:07 pm
cybernan
the american pt
12:07 pm
cybernan
grats carla
12:07 pm
cybernan
14 lwdr hwew
12:07 pm
hokie carla
not american, we've been over this before.
12:08 pm
hokie carla
more UK
12:08 pm
cybernan
not in proper english -- maybe a dialect somewhere
12:09 pm
hokie carla
the only time I ever hear/see it is the spilt milk saying, and I think it's because it's a saying
12:10 pm
hokie carla
maybe burnt
12:10 pm
cybernan
any time I saw that saying it was spilled milk
12:10 pm
HarryHood
missing 1xD, 2xP, 2xT
12:10 pm
cybernan
you're way ahead of me
12:11 pm
cybernan
still missing an s from that top corner
12:11 pm
HarryHood
sc4/7?
12:11 pm
HarryHood
no - se5/14.
12:12 pm
cybernan
sc 4/7 - ty
12:12 pm
hokie carla
here's a british link about it https://tinyurl.com/yk7run25
and this line comes from it "Firstly, there is a general American preference for -ed endings and a British preference for -t endings,"
12:15 pm
cybernan
have had enough of this - listing for the last 10
12:15 pm
HarryHood
listing my last 5.
12:17 pm
hokie carla
well, I'm here if you need anything
12:19 pm
HarryHood
going to drink more coffee and mow the lawn. have a fun day all!
12:19 pm
hokie carla
noice
12:19 pm
cybernan
grats, harry
12:22 pm
cybernan
te 6/24 please?
12:23 pm
cybernan
oh - the singular, nm
12:24 pm
cybernan
should have found 8 of the ten --- all common words. I had just lost my concentration
12:25 pm
cybernan
need any help carla?
12:27 pm
cybernan
On my way then -- hagd everyone
1:01 pm
joym999
hi all. tough grid today
1:33 pm
joym999
I'm not seeing any of the NE words in the bottom right corner except for the 4,4
1:35 pm
joym999
just found the last 5/6, which don't seem like real words to me. Anyone have a clue for the first 5/6? Is anyone here?
1:36 pm
joym999
nm, just monkeyed it. more strange words
1:39 pm
joym999
I hear crickets....
1:43 pm
MollyL
James Caan died. We have lost some great ones this year.
1:46 pm
joym999
that's too bad...
2:42 pm
ch1212
joy, the stats are ne5/12 then plural, if that helps.
4:07 pm
Uneaixoise
Et7/36 please?
4:08 pm
montreal13
design on metal
4:08 pm
periwinkle
ty monty hi all
4:09 pm
montreal13
good afternoon all
4:09 pm
72 Temple Owl
hi luc
4:09 pm
montreal13
salut TO
4:11 pm
montreal13
we are both recovering from covid...even after 4 doses of vaccine, it was a tough 2 weeks...
4:12 pm
periwinkle
hope you both continue to feel better
4:12 pm
montreal13
ty peri - a little better every day...
4:15 pm
periwinkle
30 left and slowing down
4:16 pm
montreal13
16 here...will list...
4:19 pm
montreal13
JA 7/8 ! no wonder i could not find any this Am...
4:24 pm
montreal13
FW ! any clues needed ?
4:28 pm
montreal13
well, good luck to those who are struggling on and stay safe - "poof"
5:18 pm
DukeJason
Tmontreal13 the JA 7 is something we run across almost daily, but never learned the 'precise' [haha] meaning
6:53 pm
mkg
hi all. any clues for the J words? ty
6:55 pm
mkg
oh i see below there is a ja 7 word but i dont have a clue what is could be. any clues welcome
6:56 pm
cherlyq
per more words another spelling for a flower
6:58 pm
mkg
ty. looking. but not seeing it. is it a common flower here in the us? i keep thinking jasmine but no m in the grid
6:59 pm
mkg
all help welcome for either J word. ty.
7:00 pm
mkg
if anyone has clues for the 8 letter words i am missing all of those as well. ty.
7:02 pm
Gillie
The ja words are two alternate spellings of the same flower, usually spelt starting with "ha" in English. (The ja8 is the French spelling, I think.)
7:02 pm
Gillie
*Sorry, usually spelt starting with "hy" in English.
7:03 pm
Gillie
The no8 uses the gerund ending
7:51 pm
mkg
not seeing the flower at all. is it a name i would know?
7:52 pm
mkg
i have an no 7 but not seeing the 8. no 7 means zero.
7:53 pm
mkg
oooh found the no 8! ty.
7:53 pm
mkg
still not seeing the ja. i cant think of ha flowers though other than hiacynth not in grid.
7:54 pm
mkg
oooh got the ja 7! ty. apologies.
7:54 pm
mkg
apologies for the word in the grid.
7:54 pm
mkg
off for the night to sulk over the flower. ty for clues gillie