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Mix & Match ‡

by Max & Mitch Ninelette

The goal of this Mix & Match puzzle is to reconstitute a set of nine 9-letter words that have each had two trigrams removed. Below are two separate puzzles. Each includes a table to fill out and a set of trigrams with which to fill it up. Using each trigram once, fill the blanks in the table to form various nine-letter words. When you are done, three additional words will be revealed in the vertical direction for each puzzle.

B______NG
H______YM
A______IC
C______UM
U______RE
C______IS
S______NG
V______ES
A______MY
AKIONU
APTRCH
ATAREA
ENERON
ETESCU
LYSSYN
NDRTHI
NOBTIV
OCATRE
 
V______NT
I______ES
C______TE
F______CE
L______ZE
S______AN
L______TE
C______OR
E______ME
ABIOGI
ALIONJ
IDAPOI
IEWRAN
IQUSOC
LAGTAB
LEMTAT
LINUGA
NTHYME

If you think you’ve figured out all the answersthat’s 24 nine-letter words!submit your solution to the editors of SpecGram by June 15, 2016, and you could win a prize.* Solutions and winners will be announced in the July issue.



Some plausible answers to last month’s query concerning the first batch of L’Ishing du Gwujlang/Lusrveer mnemonically merged definitions (MMDs) are presented below:

  • Therefore a man-eating giant is ergo ogre.
  • To profit half a score is to net ten.
  • To disfigure large pebbles is to scar rocks.
  • To have passed water a great way down is to have peed deep.
  • When a whirling adherent trembled, a dervish shivered.
  • 1.6 km of citrus emeralds is a lime mile.
  • Une pomme frite between the stumps is a pitch chip.
  • Moola that is due is dough owed.
  • A ribald anesthetic is an earthy ether.
  • To exude tranquility is to seep peace.
  • A social society for the appreciation of appreciable mass is a bulk club.
  • “Get out of here, tariff” is scat, tax!
  • Tawdry garishness of young poultry is chick kitsch.
  • A bilious buss is a sick kiss.
  • The totality of rules and regulations is all law.
  • To gobble up dresses is to scarf frocks.
  • A small intestinal heave is a gut tug.
  • The face of a spotted cube is a dice side.
  • An anti-vegan crew is a meat team.

Thanks to Adam Graham, Keith Slater, Siva Kalyan, and Tom Roberts for their contributions to the decipherment. Each will receive a prize for their help, as eligible.



* Note that SpecGram Anti-Hoarding Guidelines stipulate that puzzle-related prizes cannot be won by anyone who has won a puzzle-related prize in the last three monthsthough honor, fame, and glory may still be seized on the metaphorical field of puzzle-related battle.

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