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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).

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ACHY ANARCHY ARRAY ARTY CANARY CANNY CARRY CATCHY CATTY CHANCY CHANTRY CHARY CHARRY CHATTY CRANNY CYAN HARRY NANNY NARY RACY RATTY TARRY TARTY TATTY TRANNY TRAY TYRANNY TYRANT YACHT YARN

Pangram: CHANTRY

Missed: CARNY.

What an awful day! It started with a different puzzle that I somehow totally botched, and even though I make an effort to verify puzzles prior to running them, it slipped through, because of the special rule. I really need to make a more generic system in which rules are encoded into the puzzle itself instead of trying to match them during the creation and the deployment.

Anyway, the puzzle was crap, and I had to take it down a few hours into the game, replacing it with this one.

CHANTRY: an endowment for the chanting of masses commonly for the founder. Clearly I do not understand the meaning of 'endowment' here. Let's look that up. 'ENDOWMENT': the act or process of endowing, or something that is endowed, or natural capacity, power, or ability. Ahem, one of these, eh? 'ENDOW':to furnish with an income, or to furnish with a dower. Fuck. 'DOWER':the part of or interest in the real estate of a deceased spouse given by law to the surviving spouse during the surviving spouse's life or 'DOWRY', sense 1. Fuck. 'DOWRY': 1)law : the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage 2) a natural talent or gift 3)archaic, law : dower sense 1. Full circle. So much for Merriam Webster.

Dictionary.com (not my first choice):

an endowment for the singing or saying of Mass for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them.
a chapel or the like so endowed.
the priests of a chantry endowment.
a chapel attached to a church, used for minor services.

Somehow, I am not quite getting the meaning here. I will have to give up for now.

HARRY: to harrass, ravage, devastated.

TARRY: to delay, linger etc.

TATTY: worn, frayed, or delapidated. Not tattooed, but rather,

TRANNY: well, you could refer to the transmission of you car as that (if you are some kind of a redneck), but more likely it is a reference to a transgendered person (also used by rednecks, and former president Trump). Awful. To be avoided.

Another day.

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