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Spellbinding is a word puzzle game, in which you construct words reusing the provided 7 letters.
ACETYLENE ALLAY ALLEY ALLY ANALLY CANNY CATTY CAYENNE CLAY CLAYEY CLEANLY CYAN CYCLE EYELET LACEY LACY LATELY LATENCY LATENTLY NANNY NATANTLY NEATLY NELLY NYALA TALLY TATTY TEENY TELLY TENANCY TENTY YEAN YELL
Pangrams: ACETYLENE, LATENCY
This was a pleasant puzzle to solve. The Y generally ends words, and along with L provides many adverbial -LY opportunities. And any puzzle with ANALLY in it is bound to be good.
My partner and my daughter laughed at me the other day for using the word CYAN. They said that no one ever refers to that color as CYAN; I most certainly do. It is a process print color of the CMYK grouping, and it is just a good word. I suppose no one says that the sky is CYAN; in Russian for instance there is a word for light-blue in common usage (azure seems too specific to me)...
CLAYEY (claylike) seemed iffy to me, and is not even in Merriam-Webster (and dictionary.com is full of not-words. According to dictionary.com something can be clayier or even clayiest). I don't think so, but it got in past my watchful eye.
I finally looked up NATANT and it is not what I thought. It means floating in a liquid. I don't even know what I thought actually. I think 'latent' somehow leaked into my incorrect idea of natant.
NYALA is yet another kind of deer, an antelope actually. So many deer.
TENTY was another surprise. It is an abridgement of 'attentive'. I thought it was more like 'my trousers were tenty', and I don't know why.
Left out: 'leanly' is actually an adverb form of 'lean'.
And yet another day.
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