SpecGram—Mix & Match §—Max & Mitch Ninelette

“Interpretez seront les extipices”—On the Correct Interpretation of Nostradamus—Part the First—Roger Prentiss Claremont

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.

		
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		ABERED
ARYRUI
CALSCH
EXPSEM
HNMSFY
HOUTWE
IONTZY
MICUNM
ORYUNS

	
 
		
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		ALALAB
ECTLYW
EDSMON
EPHRAM
ERFTHE
ICATIC
IFYTOG
INOTOR
IZEVEL

	

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 September 15, 2016, and you could win a prize.^* Solutions and winners will be announced in the October issue.

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

To miff a mutt is to irk a cur.
Dispute nozzles are spat taps.
To omit choices is to skip picks.
To puncture flying mammals is to stab bats.
Pain food is ouch chow.
A chalice for a sporting disk is a puck cup.
The disposition of disaster is the doom mood.
To abandon baby beef is to leave veal.
Rock music is stone notes.
A 24-hour period of assistance is an aid day.
A poke at a symbol of authority is a badge jab.
An unslovenly adolescent is a neat teen.
If the desk compartment shouted then the drawer roared.
The speech of the ensnared is caught talk.
A pathogen consolidation is a germ merge.
A lovely placard is a nice sign.
To pay attention to inflection is to note tone.
Ottoman instruments are stool lutes.
Lozenge effrontery is pill lip.

Thanks to Daniel Swanson, Mark Mandel, Siva Kalyan, and Tanjam Jacobson for their contributions to the decipherment. Each will receive a prize for their help, as eligible. Honorable mention to Keith & Jesse Slater, who accrue mere fame and glory.

^* 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.

	“Interpretez seront les extipices”—On the Correct Interpretation of Nostradamus—Part the First—Roger Prentiss Claremont
	SpecGram Vol CLXXVII, No 1 Contents

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