12:17 am
licketySplitAUS
Clues are up
12:19 am
Rainiqui
nbty, nbs
12:21 am
dizgrannie
nbt/nbs
1:51 am
Gillie
Hmm - seems me7 is the plural of a word that isn't allowed for some reason
1:53 am
justafreep
There are two me7s, Gillie. And the one you mention I suspect is a weird variation on a me6 that is in the grid.
1:53 am
justafreep
oops. never mind on the two
1:54 am
Gillie
Wikipedia thinks it's a plural
1:54 am
justafreep
just the one. I was thinking it had accepted mine but I had typoed into something that WAS accepted!
1:54 am
justafreep
It probably is a plural but related to the me6
1:55 am
justafreep
of course, it's late for me, so nothing I say can be trusted :-)
1:55 am
Gillie
No - plural of a word without the final letter (but related to the me6)
1:55 am
justafreep
Enable strikes again
1:56 am
Gillie
actually, the me6 is basically the same thing, it seems
1:57 am
Gillie
Yeah, Enable is weird
1:58 am
Gillie
pa7 hasn't been called, I think
1:58 am
Gillie
Anyway, I should pack it in. G'night freep
1:59 am
justafreep
G'night
2:06 am
lynxxx
po6.24 - weirdly having for dinner tonight
6:25 am
SquidLP
if anyone's in the chat, could I get a clue for the lo8?
6:28 am
MollyL
One who hangs around places
7:19 am
SquidLP
thank you!
7:59 am
Deeha
surely if you can preempt you can also empt!!!
8:00 am
Scrabbler
Agreed.
8:01 am
Scrabbler
Deeha, I just finished Rhys Bowen's book,In Farleigh Field, with much of the story in Kent.
8:02 am
Deeha
whereabouts in Kent was it?
8:04 am
Scrabbler
Sevenoaks and around there. The estate was the Westerham family. WW2 historical fiction.
8:06 am
Scrabbler
One character worked in Bletchley Park. One worked for MI5.
8:07 am
Deeha
Sounds the sort of book I'd read. Alho I didnt really know hat area, I was on the coast. My daughter did get married in Westerham Church tho'!
8:08 am
Scrabbler
The book I read before this one was The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, focused on Bletchley Park decoders in WW2.
8:15 am
Deeha
I'm just having a craze on Elizabeth Chadwick who write about 11/12th century. Obviously fictionalised but about the lives of real people who lived then
8:15 am
hurshy
Rs Ransacked!
8:16 am
hurshy
Ns Nailed!
8:16 am
Scrabbler
I will check those out, Deeha. TY.
8:17 am
Scrabbler
Go Hurshy, go.
8:17 am
hurshy
how's everyone :)
8:17 am
hurshy
top row grey!
8:17 am
Deeha
If I remember right they only broke the enigma code because the Germans accidentally dropped an enigma machine into the soft mud of the Thames! Ooops!!
8:17 am
Scrabbler
Gaining full consciousness here.
8:18 am
hurshy
yeah slowly working on that myself, scrabs
8:18 am
Deeha
ooooh blast!!! sorry
8:18 am
Scrabbler
The Bletchley Park decoders worked so hard to decode many messages in other languages.
8:21 am
hurshy
i don't see anything about dropping in the thames https://tinyurl.com/yk8jmucj
8:22 am
hurshy
but it does mention the eventual capture of one from a U-boat
8:22 am
Scrabbler
I need to watch the Alan Turing movie.
8:22 am
hurshy
it was good
8:23 am
hurshy
as was the show Bletchley Park
8:23 am
Deeha
what a terrible way to treat a genius or indeed aanybody
8:23 am
Scrabbler
A BP show?
8:23 am
hurshy
"thanks for saving us from Hitler! oh wait, you're gay! chemical castration for you!"
8:23 am
MollyL
Hurshy gets a gold star for using tinyurl.com and not blowing up the chat. â
8:24 am
Deeha
exaxtly Hurshy
8:24 am
Scrabbler
Bletchley Circle, I see.
8:24 am
hurshy
yes scrabs https://tinyurl.com/37y9a9wk
8:24 am
hurshy
i've always been a gold star girl
8:25 am
hurshy
we need to have like babble PSAs
8:25 am
Deeha
think its time I changed my photo those girls are 17 and 11 now!!
8:26 am
hurshy
"I use tinyurl and you can too!"
8:27 am
Scrabbler
Amazing, Deeha.
8:30 am
Deeha
off for an afternoon playing rummikub, good luck everybody bbl
8:30 am
Scrabbler
Bye Deeha
8:31 am
hurshy
Os Overturned!
8:33 am
hurshy
phantom: epitome
8:33 am
hurshy
remember when you were a kid and you thought it was pronouned "ep-i-tome"
8:34 am
hurshy
phantoms: eterne, etoile
8:35 am
MollyL
It would be great if there were a bulletin board for this place where we could put the tiny url link, the Lickety Expert Link, notes about if Lickety's list has an extra word or why Lickety's list is down.
8:35 am
Scrabbler
Some words trip us up. Mine are: awry (aw-ree), misled (mizzled), and innovative (in-NAHV-itive.)
8:36 am
hurshy
yeah but those ones with greek roots especially, i mean, they don't follow the usual patterns of english pronunciation... names like penelope, hermione, persephone are just like epitome in that regard
8:37 am
jbp
my phantoms are dementia and epoi. don't know what that says about me
8:37 am
hurshy
i've got two of the right side E but can't find either third row E
8:37 am
MollyL
Then there are the often mispronounced sherbert and February
8:38 am
MollyL
sher-bet and feb-roo-ary
8:38 am
hurshy
sarsaparilla is a nutty one too
8:38 am
jbp
Good Morning, moin,
8:39 am
jbp
sorry wrong window. gotta get back to actual work. hope to bbl
8:39 am
phaeton
tumeric and turmeric
8:40 am
hurshy
left col grey!
8:42 am
Scrabbler
I found 100 so I need to get chores done.
8:44 am
hurshy
is so a word!
8:56 am
MollyL
Why am I not surprised that Hurshy argues that is a word?
8:59 am
phaeton
help with one of the ep7's...i have the one that has to do with immunology
9:04 am
rururocks
it's a biology word
9:05 am
phaeton
got it, thanks! FW
9:09 am
rururocks
related to somites
9:16 am
rururocks
<---took years of biology in college
9:18 am
MollyL
Didn't faint about your knowledge.
9:19 am
rururocks
that she got it with not much of a clue then
9:22 am
rururocks
I give up then
9:22 am
hokie carla
howdy folks
9:22 am
rururocks
hiya hokes
9:22 am
hokie carla
finished ruru?
9:23 am
rururocks
no.. struggling a bit with this bugger
9:24 am
hokie carla
great. just started.
9:24 am
rururocks
just m's and p's to go though
9:24 am
hokie carla
phantom demote
9:24 am
hokie carla
mary poppins
9:25 am
hokie carla
(m's and p's)
9:27 am
hokie carla
is mael already gone? hope she got her tiara.
9:29 am
rururocks
haven't seen mael
9:29 am
hokie carla
oh, she is showing online right now
9:31 am
hokie carla
one who chooses something is not a word. classic enable.
9:32 am
hokie carla
you what?
9:35 am
MollyL
I think mael is jet-setting again
9:37 am
hokie carla
oh dear, this is a lot of p's
9:42 am
rururocks
tough grid for me today but finished now
9:43 am
hokie carla
nice. got worse on the 4th row. stuck on that E.
9:44 am
hokie carla
62 left and no HOET.
9:47 am
rururocks
this is a hard grid to get half on each tile
9:48 am
hokie carla
I have half on everything but that E, just found 1/5
9:48 am
penquis
there are two EP 7 words....at least those are the two i have....hello all......
9:49 am
hokie carla
I'm assuming there are weird ones there. hey pen!
9:49 am
hokie carla
I have EL5
9:50 am
penquis
yes, they are weird, at least to me...
9:50 am
hokie carla
ok, I'm gonna need some kind of clue for those, P&TY
9:51 am
hokie carla
ooh, got one
9:51 am
penquis
they both start with a prefix for skin words...
9:51 am
penquis
and both end with four letter words....
9:52 am
hokie carla
got the other, thanks!
9:52 am
hokie carla
HOET!
9:52 am
hokie carla
53 left. 12-10-23-7-1
too many 6s. that's why this grid stinks.
9:53 am
penquis
i have 54 left....just checked....missing HOET because of first column 0....
9:53 am
penquis
duh...found O words...
9:53 am
hokie carla
I found the best words for there
9:54 am
penquis
yes, closed out that letter....ty....
9:54 am
hokie carla
I still need 1
9:54 am
penquis
same root....
9:55 am
hokie carla
got it. could've sworn I tried that earlier
9:55 am
hokie carla
now just need 1 E to finish first col
9:55 am
hokie carla
phantom eject
9:55 am
hokie carla
(cue ruru saying there's no c)
9:55 am
penquis
probably the one i am missing....
9:57 am
penquis
it's an ER 7....
9:57 am
hokie carla
of course it is
9:57 am
penquis
ends with a four letter word....
9:58 am
hokie carla
first col gray! thanks
9:58 am
hurshy
hiya again - we talking Es? what about the 3rd row ones?
9:59 am
penquis
i have one....more of less.....
9:59 am
hokie carla
I have it gray. hold on.
9:59 am
hurshy
more of less? hmm
9:59 am
penquis
geez...i am clueing like ru....
9:59 am
hokie carla
both reg em7
10:00 am
hurshy
ah thanks hoke
10:00 am
hokie carla
if you threw up you em7 your stomach
10:00 am
hurshy
way to give the grossest possible clue, lol
10:01 am
penquis
and you would have more of less... ;o)
10:01 am
hokie carla
but you can't have done it again
10:01 am
hurshy
ahh, i get it now, very cryptic pen
10:01 am
hurshy
well that's silly cause you can deffo refill
10:01 am
hokie carla
that's a moo clue
10:02 am
penquis
yes, too cryptic....i once worked for a website called the Home Vine....my name there was Cryptic Horseradish....
10:02 am
hokie carla
and yes I just need 1 R so that would've been nice to redo
10:03 am
hokie carla
but I guess that would be 9 letters which we don't have
10:03 am
hurshy
i have all Rs...
10:03 am
hurshy
did you get 2 re5/12s?
10:03 am
hurshy
adj form of the re5/10 babblet?
10:04 am
hokie carla
can't drink heavily again
10:04 am
hurshy
send via post again, do the topography again, design a system again kinda thing
10:04 am
hurshy
do your shoelaces again
10:05 am
hurshy
and there are two fours
10:05 am
hurshy
and when you pay your bills you re5 the money
10:05 am
hurshy
i think we've covered them all now
10:05 am
hokie carla
only one I'm not sure of there is design a system again
10:06 am
hurshy
that's an re6/18, last of the Rs
10:06 am
jesdraggon
morning kiddos
10:06 am
hokie carla
hey jes
10:06 am
hokie carla
ah, thanks
10:06 am
penquis
hi jes....
10:07 am
hokie carla
found my D for top row gray!
10:08 am
jesdraggon
yay hokie!
10:08 am
hurshy
woot, found the 8!
10:08 am
hokie carla
nice
10:09 am
jesdraggon
yay hurshy!
10:09 am
penquis
leaving 45 for later....bye all....
10:09 am
hurshy
my only real weak areas now are the right P and the right E
10:09 am
jesdraggon
bye penquis
10:09 am
jesdraggon
have a good day
10:10 am
hokie carla
bye pen! also have 45 left.
10:10 am
hokie carla
anyone know my last J?
10:10 am
hurshy
i do have ep6 and stealthy marriage for the right E
10:10 am
hurshy
i need one J as well, hokie
10:10 am
hokie carla
2 weird ep7
10:11 am
hurshy
phantom: lament
10:11 am
hokie carla
thanks for the ep6. add a letter to that
10:12 am
hokie carla
also phantom ailment to go with lament
10:12 am
hurshy
ad the end of it?
10:12 am
hokie carla
maybe it is a different 6. I still need 1 E there.
10:12 am
hurshy
and i need 2
10:13 am
hurshy
my ep6 is that weird vowelly babblet
10:13 am
hokie carla
ok, don't rem. that off the top of my head.
10:13 am
hurshy
thanks! i have them all now
10:13 am
hokie carla
so you found one of the 7s?
10:13 am
hurshy
the Vatican dude with vowels on each end
10:14 am
hokie carla
got it, thanks
10:14 am
jesdraggon
thanks hurshy
10:14 am
BzznBea
thats a nice entrance
10:14 am
hokie carla
don't worry, bea. we have finished the R.
10:14 am
BzznBea
hello friends
10:15 am
hokie carla
and I mean every R word was just clued a few minutes ago for me.
10:15 am
jesdraggon
morning bea :)
10:17 am
hokie carla
well, I gotta get moving. 41 left for later. 19-7-17-6-1
10:20 am
jesdraggon
bye, hokie, have a good one
10:49 am
hurshy
oho a yummy po6
11:27 am
hurshy
where did everybody go??
11:27 am
Norma
can anyone clue the two em7s please
11:28 am
hurshy
Fritz quickly em7 his food dish because he was hungry
11:29 am
hurshy
leaving it em7 than it was before
11:29 am
dan2bit
oh hurshy's too fast
11:30 am
hurshy
meep meep
11:30 am
BzznBea
thanks, hurshy
11:31 am
Norma
brilliant ... thanks x
11:41 am
mkg
any clues for the 8? ty
11:43 am
BzznBea
lo8 one who hangs around
11:44 am
Norma
help last word to finish pe6 the second one please
11:46 am
mkg
ty bea. nott getting it. i keep thinking of a loafer.
11:46 am
BzznBea
its a combo lo6 and 8
11:47 am
dan2bit
lo6 rhymes with an old word for enlarged thyroid. add "one who" to the end
12:02 pm
dan2bit
66 left, hoet
12:28 pm
hokie carla
rehi - my missing j is not jetmen because of course not, enable
12:28 pm
MollyL
One who makes fun of
12:29 pm
hokie carla
have that one
12:29 pm
hokie carla
but good guess as that was the last one I found
12:29 pm
MollyL
And the past tense?
12:29 pm
BzznBea
the rest are je4
12:30 pm
MollyL
Those are the only j6
12:31 pm
hokie carla
I have the army one and the ballet one plus the root of the 6s
12:32 pm
BzznBea
it is before the army car
12:32 pm
hokie carla
got it, thanks. might've spent all day looking for that.
12:33 pm
hokie carla
oh, just found hurshy's delicious one
12:34 pm
BzznBea
ive been looking for that one...
12:34 pm
BzznBea
just popped into my head
12:34 pm
hokie carla
compound word, which is why it took me so long
12:35 pm
hokie carla
still have 5 + 10 p's
12:36 pm
BzznBea
5+2 here
12:41 pm
hokie carla
well now 4 + 6 but moving on
12:41 pm
BzznBea
are you getting rain, carla?
12:42 pm
hokie carla
oh, found a cookie, so 4 + 5
12:42 pm
hokie carla
we have sun today. had rain all day yesterday.
12:42 pm
BzznBea
rain here all day
12:42 pm
hokie carla
I need to transplant some of my seedlings that are in the house.
12:43 pm
hokie carla
yeah, I saw there was a front stalled over Charlotte and Raleigh dumping rain.
12:45 pm
hokie carla
sure would like to find my last T
12:45 pm
hokie carla
oh, duh
12:46 pm
BzznBea
to5.12 fake man hair
12:46 pm
hokie carla
nope, a diff alt sp
12:47 pm
hokie carla
now to work on my 4 A
12:47 pm
hokie carla
to gray that row
12:52 pm
hokie carla
found 1
12:52 pm
BzznBea
my last two were po6
12:53 pm
hokie carla
nice, peace out
12:56 pm
hokie carla
oh well, made it to 25 left. 4-5-12-4
M3 L4 A3 P4 O P5 D2 L3
1:48 pm
periwinkle
hello all. raining again
1:49 pm
periwinkle
I only have two 7s'. em7x2
1:50 pm
periwinkle
found an me7
1:57 pm
jesdraggon
Hi Peri, just starting to rain here too
3:08 pm
periwinkle
help with pa7 or pi7 please
6:02 pm
cybernan
hello everyone - busy day so just getting back
6:03 pm
penquis
hi mool, carla, nan...
6:04 pm
hokie carla
I went to the hardware store and then walmart and was gone for hours somehow
6:05 pm
penquis
lost in a big box experience...
6:06 pm
hokie carla
now I have to figure out what to eat
6:06 pm
penquis
fortunately, i had left overs...
6:07 pm
hokie carla
mr. homie said he was having leftovers but it was what I had at lunch
6:08 pm
cybernan
out for lunch to day then had everyone back here for dessert. Brought supper home in a box ans I couldn't eat it all
6:11 pm
hokie carla
I'll be right over
6:11 pm
penquis
i love leftovers....
6:16 pm
moolingwa
hey hoke, sorry getting ready for trivia
6:24 pm
hokie carla
ooh, fun
6:24 pm
hokie carla
I'll be right over
6:31 pm
hokie carla
hey, found a word!
6:32 pm
penquis
i am stalled at 20....
6:33 pm
penquis
i did a systematic search for fours....still have two to find....
6:33 pm
hokie carla
24 here. half are 6s.
6:33 pm
hokie carla
3 4's left here
6:38 pm
penquis
going to list...
6:39 pm
hokie carla
wonder what my missing O is
6:40 pm
penquis
is it one of the center column Os? My missing one was a real word....oi 6....
6:40 pm
hokie carla
that's it. tried that ending for my J but no
6:40 pm
hokie carla
thanks
6:42 pm
cybernan
my mising o is from the first column
6:43 pm
penquis
there are three words that start with the same five letters...
6:43 pm
hokie carla
there are 2 op6 and a 7 that are all similar
6:44 pm
cybernan
must be the 6 -- jut have one
6:45 pm
hokie carla
found a word
6:51 pm
cybernan
going to list
6:52 pm
hokie carla
well, bea told me her last 2 were po6 and I am missing 2 po6, so I guess they are weird.
6:53 pm
cybernan
oh wow - 4 x ep and not a clue
6:53 pm
penquis
they are all weird....
6:54 pm
penquis
the first two start with the same four letters....start with the prefix for skin stuff....
6:54 pm
cybernan
found the 2nd 7
6:54 pm
penquis
the first 6 ends in french sea...
6:55 pm
cybernan
and the 7 in french mother
6:56 pm
penquis
yes....the other EP 6 has four vowels....ends in double vowel....
6:58 pm
hokie carla
well I can't find any of these 6s. I might just quit with 20 left.
6:58 pm
penquis
does anyone have AL 6/21?
6:59 pm
72 Temple Owl
one who gives charity
6:59 pm
penquis
ty TO...always forget how that is spelled....
6:59 pm
cybernan
got it - ty pen
6:59 pm
hokie carla
not sure how to make that work
6:59 pm
hokie carla
not sure how to make that work
7:00 pm
hokie carla
also not sure how these double posts are happening today. that's at least my 2nd one.
7:00 pm
penquis
add a consonant before the "one who" ending...
7:01 pm
hokie carla
ah, thanks
7:01 pm
hokie carla
was trying it wth a vowel
7:05 pm
penquis
can't find my last word....PE 7/32 anyone?
7:05 pm
hokie carla
well, this is how much I hate this grid. going to clean the kitchen.
7:07 pm
cybernan
don't have and don't see it pen
7:07 pm
penquis
thanks for checking....
7:08 pm
penquis
used Best Word List...i am done....
7:08 pm
cybernan
begins with a house animal and ends with a latin cheer
7:08 pm
cybernan
too late
7:09 pm
penquis
thanks anyway!
7:09 pm
penquis
need anything before I go?
7:09 pm
cybernan
still need 28 but would like a clue for the er 7
7:10 pm
penquis
ends with a small insect....
7:10 pm
72 Temple Owl
hermit synonym
7:11 pm
penquis
or small creature...
7:12 pm
penquis
yw....goodnight all...
7:12 pm
72 Temple Owl
name that inventor and pitchman extraorinaire- thnk veg-o-matic
7:34 pm
cybernan
po 6/24 please (last one)?
8:03 pm
jesdraggon
hullo folks
9:17 pm
Smdnjv
Hello folks. Can someone clue the first do6/21 please
11:14 pm
Shellbell_o-well
fw... till the flip