AWLNOF-S

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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2021-12-09 solution: AWLNOF-S

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.

ERRATA

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.

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