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This is a gemlog for the SpellBinding puzzle, in which you construct words using the specified letters (each word must contain the anchor letter).
ALAS ALSO ANANAS ASWOON FLOSS FOSSA LASS LASSO LOSS NASAL SALLOW SALON SALOON SALSA SAWN SLOW SNOW SNOWFALL SOFA SOLFA SOLANO SOLO SOON SOWN SWALLOW SWAN SWOON
Pangram: SNOWFALL
Permanent Rules apply: no -S endings for plurals or third-person verbs, to keep the puzzle from being tedious.
Natural Sciences: a FOSSA is anatomical pit, groove or depression. Also, a tree rat in Madagascar. SOLANO is a hot east wind in the Mediterranean (esp. around Spain).
Foods: ANANAS, aka pineapple. SALSA, great. And if really pressed one can SWALLOW (verb) a SWALLOW (bird) or even a SWAN.
I will now retire to my SALON (1. an elegant apartment or living room in a fashionable home). With the pandemic it is hard to hold or go to a SALON (2. a fashionable assemblage of noteables), and of course there are beauty SALONs... A SALOON on the other hand is generally a bar or a pub, although the primary meaning is a large public cabin on a ship, or a parlor car of a train.
SOLFA is not a word and should not have been included. Sol-fa syllbales are musical notes (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti), and their application is known as 'solfege'.
And there goes another day.