SpecGram—Mix & Match ‡—Max & Mitch Ninelette

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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 answers—that’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 months—though honor, fame, and glory may still be seized on the metaphorical field of puzzle-related battle.

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