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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).
AGONY ALONG ANAL ANALLY ANALOGY ANNAL ANNOY ANON GALANGAL GALLON GANG GANGLY GONG GOON LAGOON LAGOONAL LOAN LONG LOON LOONY LYON NAAN NANA NANNY NAPPY NOON NYALA NYLON ONLY PAGAN PANG PANGA PANOPLY PLAN POLYGON POLYGONAL POLYGYNY PONY PYLON
Pangram: POLYGONAL
Thank you, everyone who /msg'ed me with missing words. There were a few: 'naggy', 'yang' (of yin/yang fame), 'oolong' (kind of tea), 'ganggang' (an Australian parrot), and 'nonagon' (nine-sided polygon, which was in the dictionary but this batch of puzzles was prepared earlier...).
By the way, if you ever wish to submit a puzzle, I will be happy to run it! Email spellbinding@tilde.cafe - 7 letters and all the vaild answers, and anything else you wish to appear in the puzzle (up to 5 lines but keep it short). Up to 64 answers, but again, over 40 may be too tedious. Just look at some old ones for a sense of how they are structured in
Is it me or is ANAL/ANALLY coming up way too often? GALANGAL, LAGOON/LAGOONAL... Seems like these words are always there.
LYON is a mistake! My dictionary had a lot of place names, and a few are still hiding.
So we have some good words today. PANOPLY: 1:a: a full suit of armor b: ceremonial attire; 2: something forming a protective covering; 3:a: a magnificent or impressive array b: a display of all appropriate appurtenances. Most commonly used in its third meaning, although I just can't see the difference between 3a and 3b...
PANGA - a small fishing boat.
POLYGYNY - an impressive word with three - count them - Y's! A shittier, male-centric version of 'polygamy': a man with multiple wives. Polygamy is not gender-specific, and is much more reasonable as far as I am concerned (and seems to be how humans live anyway, while pretending to be monogomous, to everyone's detrement).
Another day.