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This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).
ABACA ABSCISSA ABSORB ARBOR ASCORBIC BABA BAOBAB BARB BARBARIC BASIC BASIS BASS BIAS BIBI BICARB BOAR BOOB BOOR BORACIC BOSS BRASS BRASSICA BRIAR BRIO CAROB CASABA CASSABA COBRA CRAB CRIB CROSSBAR IBIS ISOBAR RABBI ROOIBOS SABRA SCAB SCARAB SORB
Pangrams: ASCORBIC
A player /msg'ed me with a note that I missed Arab and Arabic... A quick reminder: no place names or nationalities, and never anything capitalized. But every rule has exceptions: homographs (words spelled the same with a different meaning), and heteronyms (also pronounced differently). So 'afghan' will be accepted (a blanket, shawl, carpet), and so will 'afghani' (a unit of currency). Arab/Arabic have no lowercased meanings.
BORACIC: another word for 'boric' as in acid.
SABRA: a native-born Israeli, often capitalized. Either way, a mistake. I thought I already removed it, but apparently not before this month's puzzles...
Another day.
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