NYT Spelling Bee

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QBwH, last word tommyrot. Torii was next to last.

LB: I had the boring "official" answer, clipboard-deft. Congratulations on your solution!

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBw3LL last word decedent. LB nudge for payback-kingmaker. Compound words - argh!

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

Bad puzzle day yesterday. QBwH for eidetic, memetic, and deceit, my last word.

No LB solution yesterday. I would never have thought of kingmaker.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwG last word googol. LB nudge for juice-exoskeleton.

LB has been tricky. If I don't get a 2fer, after a while I go to this site:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-PYFq4H3w7JvKCFUubLr4Zp9xHr57Qqn/view

The link stays the same but the underlying doc updates. Usually I have one of the words and I can find a nudge for a mate.

If I'm really stuck I go to community hints.

And compound words get me every time!

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good afternoon!

QBwSBBhints for googol, hotfoot, outfought, and my last word—embarrassingly—tofu.

I probably could have found some of those on my own. I've been getting impatient fairly quickly lately and going for hints.

And I agree that LB has been kind of difficult lately. I went to hints for juice-exoskeleton. I had juice and skeleton, but did not see exoskeleton. Thanks for the link to the possible combinations!

And happy puzzling!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QBwH for gavage, which I would probably never have found on my own.

No solution for LB! I didn't even have time to look at the hints yesterday. Sigh...

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwSBB last word vivid. LB nudge for queso-oligarch.

Happy solving!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

Team QBwH last word priapic. LB needed a hint for walkathon-nervy.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good afternoon/morning!

My last word was also priapic. Genius with pangram today, but having trouble with the remaining words.

LB: walkathon-nervy.

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwH last word parol. LB needed a nudge and a made-up word to get memorizable-erhus.

An erhu is a Chinese musical instrument.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good morning!

QBw2LL for last words, patly, aorta, palp.

LB: two words I thought would be rejected: ablush-humorize.

I'll have to try to remember erhu!

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Morning!

QBwH, last word photomap. LB mixtape-enforce.

Happy solving!

[cathwen]

Good afternoon!

QBwH, last word also photomap.

LB: No solution. Congratulations on yours!

Happy puzzling!

[ciao_yall]

Unfortunately the NYT Tech Guild is on strike and asking everyone to not play games until it's over.

So I'll be in withdrawal until this digital picket line is over.

Ugh.

We are telling jokes on the FB Spelling Bee page.

[cathwen]

I hadn't heard that! Thanks for letting me know.